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UX for the Web

You're reading from   UX for the Web Build websites for user experience and usability

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787128477
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cara Winterbottom Cara Winterbottom
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Marli Ritter Marli Ritter
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Preface 1. The Fundamentals of UX FREE CHAPTER 2. Stand Out from Your Competitors 3. Creating an Emotional Connection with the User 4. Best Practices for Usability Within the User Interface (UI) 5. Set a Solid Foundation - Research and Analyze 6. Create a UX Strategy - Users and Content 7. Bring Your UX Strategy to Life with Wireframes and Prototypes 8. Building Your Product - Devices, Browsers, and Assistive Technologies 9. Optimize your UX Strategy with Iterative User Testing 10. The Basics and Benefits of Web Accessibility 11. A Practical Guide to Web Accessibility

Testing for accessibility


In order to know that you have catered for accessibility and assistive technologies in your website, you need to test. This will be time consuming. It often takes longer to view and interact with websites if you have disabilities, so if you are simulating disabilities, you will experience the same delays. This is useful, as it is valuable to be aware of the difficulties experienced by users. However, you will also not be familiar with the techniques and tools, so they will take you longer to use than they would a disabled person who is more familiar with them. So, set aside a good amount of time to do this testing, and share it out among the team so that everyone involved in building the website is aware of the issues.

Here are some of the ways of testing the accessibility of your website:

  • Keyboard only: Check if you can access all parts of your website while only using the keyboard. Especially, check the tab order while doing this, to make sure it is logical. Can...
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