I offer practical assistance with your web accessibility project.
Huh? What is web accessibility?
It means ensuring that people with disabilities can effectively navigate the Web.
Without specific improvements to your website, there is a substantial risk that people with disabilities, such as visual or cognitive impairments, will not be able to use it at all. This is not great… and even unacceptable.
WCAG audit
WCAG audit is the big word for web accessibility audits.
WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) are the international web accessibility guidelines. Countries that enforce web accessibility requirements through legislation follow these guidelines.
The process is rather straightforward: I’ll take a few days to analyze your website, identifying each element that impacts accessibility. At the end, you will get a report comprising:
- a score indicating how compliant your website is according to web accessibility rules;
- a comprehensive list of accessibility errors requiring attention;
- recommendations on how to fix these errors.
An audit serves as a first step to test your website for accessibility. Following this, it is crucial to make it compliant with WCAG.
Compliance and website repair
I provide practical support to make your website accessible by rectifying accessibility errors, whether they are within the code or related to functional and graphic choices.
You may ask yourself, “What is the point of calling on someone to address these errors if you already have a WCAG audit detailing the issues you could fix yourself?”
Well, the answer lies in the complexity of your website. For instance, if your web application is highly interactive and developed using React, fixing errors can be challenging if you simply rely on the suggestions from an audit.
It’s a bit like joining a poker tournament with no experience other than reading “Poker For Dummies”– it’s good start, but there’s a good chance you’ll lose very quickly…
This is why you should entrust the task to someone who knows WCAG and the behavior of screen readers inside and out, who also has a good command of React, JavaScript, PHP and other web development techniques, and who can work independently on complex code.
Be assured I don’t just work on my own without sharing anything: by using pull requests and meticulous commits, your team will be able to follow up on the corrections and learn from our exchanges.
ReferenceFrance Université Numérique, editor of FUN MOOC
I have consistently supported France Université Numérique in making their web services more accessible through audits, documentation, or tangible corrections to their open-source code.
Support
Conducting an audit and rectifying errors once is already a great start. But you will soon realize that web accessibility should be an integral part of your project throughout its life cycle.
As you add features to your website or write new content, you have to pay continuous attention to accessibility. And you don’t necessarily want to call in an accessibility expert for every minor change.
I can support your team through one-off training sessions or regular updates, empowering them to develop skills and autonomy in this area.