The web has to be inclusive. One in five people living in the UK has a disability. From Microsoft’s “inclusive design” movement - creating adaptive controllers for users with a range of disabilities - to Beyoncé’s site being sued for failure to be accessible, the importance of considering access needs is gaining mainstream attention. Recognizing and catering for various disabilities in our online platforms is key to achieving a genuinely inclusive web.

You’ll be guided through a broad range of access needs, the barriers users often face, and provided practical advice on how your sites can help rather than hinder. Going beyond advice tailored solely for developers, this book offers potential improvements for designers, developers, user experience professionals, QA and testers so that everyone involved in building a website can engage with the concepts without needing to understand how to code.

Learn about the latest technology - such as natural language processing and smart home tech - and explore its application accessibly. This book comes complete with practical examples you can use on your sites. For the first time in any web accessibility book, access needs experienced by those with mental health disorders and cognitive impairments are comprehensively covered.
Applicable to both new projects and those maintaining existing sites and looking for achievable improvements on them, Practical Web Inclusion and Accessibility gives you all the information you need to ensure that your sites are truly accessible for the modern, inclusive web.

What You Will Learn

Understand the vast range of disabilities that have online access needs
Apply the practical steps required to cater for those needs
Use new technology to open up exciting avenues for the sites you create and maintain
Approach accessibility from a full spectrum of online disciplines
Please start thinking about users with specific disabilities and how it impact your work
Who This Book Is For
Anyone who wants a greater understanding of the inclusive web and the considerations that should be made. You do not need to have coding knowledge.