Lesson 11Post-design steps: how to implement and monitor your accessible design?
Notion 82
The difference between ensuring short-term and long-term accessibility
Target skills
To avoid having an ever-changing design and have changes too often, thinking from a system design standpoint or based on a collection of good practices is a good example of choices that are robust in the long-term. Thoses choices will indeed favour long-term over short-term accessibility compliance. Test yourself on this new topic and deepen your knowledge with this quiz!
Your website is a platform showcasing articles from visitor contributions. How would you prevent accessibility issues?
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Banning images or giving your visitors more control over the design will not resolve your accessibility issues. Instead, enforce tools that produce reproductible content that is known to be accessible.
You’ve created a new module for your website. What’s next?
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Until your module is validated, avoid adding this new feature to your website or your system design.
What would be your strategy to check if your website is accessible?
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Other solutions are somehow valid, but don’t guarantee you follow the important rules you’ve set for yourself based on your design and the accessibility guidelines.
A sitemap is…
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A sitemap is useful for the designer and the visitors. It helps to know the general structure of the website, and to access resources directly from there. It’s an important element for keeping in mind which content is available on the platform and ensures long-term relevance of pages and navigation.
How would you create your color palette to ensure it is future-proof?
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Your color palette can have color associations that are known to be accessible. You will gain time with a robust system design including color palettes!
Which sentence is *false*?
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Even if HTML is accessible by default, what you do of it will threaten the accessibility of your design. It takes time to make a website accessible, do not underestimate it in your budget!