We recommend you to keep web accessibility best practices in mind, when you are designing, adding content, and building your website on Pixpa. Follow this guide to make your website accessible to handicapped people. They can use screen readers or any other technology to access your website.
Pixpa has several in-built features that you can use to improve your website’s accessibility such as:
- Define the site language of your website. Learn more.
- Assign descriptive anchor tags to all links.
- Spacing between menu items. Learn more.
- Specify contact/payment form labels and descriptions. Learn more.
You may use this tool to test the accessibility of your site – https://wave.webaim.org/
Things you need to focus on to increase your website’s accessibility:
Page Titles
When a person visits a new web page, the screen readers call out the page title first. Make sure every page of your website has a title that gives an overview of the page’s content. Each page title should be distinct from other page titles.
Text Headings
To know the page design, the screenreaders read the HTML code of the page. To increase your page accessibility to the screenreaders, each section of your page needs to have a heading.
Assign the correct headings font to the text. Learn more.
Text Links
Make sure you describe the objective of the link in the before/after text. This also helps in SEO. Do not add the word link in the before/after text.
Correct sentence: To know more about me, visit the About Me page.
Wrong sentence: To know more about me, click here.
Line Spacing
Make sure your text has sufficient line spacing. Visitors will then be able to override your line spacing to better meet their needs. Manage the line height and letter spacing of any font from the Design section.
Images
Make sure images on your website are easily accessible to all people (people with disabilities too). The Alt Text of images and the .gif files format play an important role.
Alt Text
When a screen reader examines a web page, it recognizes the images and reads out the associated Alt text to the visitor. Add proper descriptive alt text to your images. Background images or just page beautifying images do not need any alt text.
.gif files
Pixpa enables you to add .gif files to your website. Make sure your .gif file does not play more than 3 times in one second as this may cause physical reactions in the visitor’s body.
Colors
Only colors do not give any information to disabled people using screen readers. Always use colors with different contrast rather than similar ones. Manage your website colors.
Videos
Do not add more than 2 videos in a single page as more motion can cause inconvenience to Motion Intolerant people.
Make sure your video content does not play more than 3 times in one second as this may cause physical reactions in the visitor’s body.
Audios
Help deaf people access your audio content by adding audio transcripts to your website.