Practical Web Inclusion and Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Access Needs

by Ashley Firth

The web has to be inclusive. One in five people living in the UK have 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 a range of disabilities in our online platforms is key to achieving a truly 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 the need to understand how to code. Learn about the very 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 in your own sites and, 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 Who This Book Is For
Anyone who wants to have a greater understanding of the inclusive web and considerations that should be made. You do not need to have coding knowledge.

Genres: Design

498 pages, Paperback

Published November 27, 2019

Reviews

[Ashley Firth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty biased - I wrote it.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the best book I’ve come across for web accessibility. I am around 3/4 of the way through this book and love it so far! I would recommend this book for anyone working within tech from those who are new to accessibility as well as those who are already familiar with accessibility.

This book covers quite a range of topics within web accessibility with each chapter focused on a specific topic such as Blindness, Low vision, Deafness and hard of hearing, etc. Each chapter goes relatively in-depth and provides real-life examples and case studies, as well as practical advice. I am sure I’ll come to reference this book as I do work within web accessibility. I especially learned a lot from the chapter dedicated to mental health as I have not seen mental health covered much within accessibility. The author is clearly very passionate and knowledgeable about inclusive design and I appreciated how they drove the point forward that WCAG compliant doesn’t necessarily equate to the most inclusive experience.

I’m looking forward to finishing the rest of this book, and highly recommend it anyone who is passionate about inclusivity and accessibility of web experiences!

[Eleonora Tava · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good examples, good reference.
A little bit redundant in some chapters.