5 ways Eonic makes your website accessible

Here are just a few of the ways that all Eonic Digital websites are designed to be easy to use for disabled visitors:

1  Colour Contrast

To make sure your site is easy to use for visitors with poor vision, we make sure all the text on your website contrasts sufficiently with the background to make it easy to read (using at least a 4:5:1 contrast ratio to be specific). We also make sure that if text is over a video or image, you can still read the text clearly on every screen size. Elements within a form will also have a good contrast ratio to the background.

2 Font Size

We make sure the default font size used on your website is large enough that it’s easy to read. Then we make sure that when a visitor increases the font size in their browser, everything still works smoothly up to 200% font size increase.

3 ‘Skip to Content’ Button

For visitors using screen readers, or who can’t use a mouse, it can be tedious having to go through the whole menu at the start of each page. To help here, we add a skip to content link, which lets users go straight to the text of the page. To see this, you can hit tab on an Eonic Digital website and the button will appear.

4  Highlights for Keyboard Users

To further assist visitors who can’t use a mouse, we make sure that if you navigate through a page using the tab button on your keyboard, there is always a clear highlight to show you where you are in the page.

5  Avoiding Conveying Information Only Through Colour

You need to make sure that you don’t rely only on colour to give information as this will be difficult for colour-blind users. One place this often happens is with links – just changing the colour of the text isn’t enough to show it can be clicked. That’s why we make sure to add an underline to our links, so colour-blind users can easily pick them out of the text on the page.

There are also many other more technical ways we keep out code accessible - if you would like further details about how we make our websites accessible, please contact us on 01273 761 586.

Making sure the website is built for users with disabilities is only half the story; you also need to make sure the content you add to the site will work for them too. Find out more in our future articles on accessibility.