100 points to know about...
Digital accessibility

The most obvious benefit of web accessibility is that it helps people with disabilities enjoy your website´s content, products and services.
However, the advantages of web accessibility are not limited to their immediate impact for people with disabilities; they benefit a much wider range of users.

Let´s see how some accessibility features are essential for some and useful for all.

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Essential for People with visual impairments:
Colours with good contrast

Useful for:

• older people with deteriorating vision due to aging;
• everyone in different light situations (e.g. glaring sunlight)

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Essential for People with motor impairments:
Keyboard functionality

Useful for:

• temporary limited mobility (e.g. broken arm);
• circumstances (e.g. broken mouse)

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Essential for Cognitive and learning disabilities:
Understandable content (simple language, clear design and links, enough time)

Useful for:

• people with low literacy;
• people not fluent in the language

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Essential for Deaf or hard of hearing people:
Audio and video captions

Useful for:

• when audio cannot be used due to circumstances (e.g. loud environment) or environment requirements (you have to be very quiet - e.g. library)
• non-native speakers

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Essential for People with visual impairments:
Text alternatives for non text objects

Useful for:

• People with low bandwidth connections to the Internet;
• people with older technologies