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Principles for Accessibility

If you are in charge of the user experience, development, or strategy for a web site, A Web for Everyone will help you make your site accessible without sacrificing design or innovation. Rooted in universal design principles, this book provides solutions: practical advice and examples of how to create sites that everyone can use.

  1. A Web for Everyone

  2. People First: Designing for differences

  3. Clear Purpose: Well-defined goals

  4. Solid Structure: Built to standards

  5. Easy Interaction: Everything works

  6. Helpful Wayfinding: Guides users

  7. Clean Presentation: Visual design supports meaning

  8. Plain Language: Creates a conversation

  9. Accessible Media: Supports all senses

  10. Universal Usability: Creates delight

Help needed for "Principles for Accessibility"!

The following is missing from this set of principles:

Summary: Each design principle can have a brief summary, these could be a couple of lines or a detailed paragraph outlining how this principle is used or measured, e.g.

- principle: Strive to be universal
summary: Our aim is to be a resource that is helpful to everyone. We do this by strictly adhering to principles of progressive enhancement…

Tip! You may be able to find the missing information at the source URL:
http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/a-web-for-everyone/.

It would be great if you could contribute and update this set of principles with anything that's missing!

Ben Brignell maintains principles.design as an open source resource.

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