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May 23, 2017
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UI Design
Revisiting the Fresh Tilled Soil accessibility stack
Author Scott O’Hara
At Fresh Tilled Soil we continue to believe that accessibility is a large part of designing great user experiences. Back in 2014 we published an article outlining our accessibility stack, calling out tools we use to ensure we are building experiences that are accessible for people with visual impairments, or those that are deaf or hard of hearing.
Today we’d like to revisit this post, because as we all know, technology moves fast and in the three years since the original post, we’ve made a few modifications to our accessibility stack that we’d like to share with you today.
Creating Accessible Interfaces:
Here is an outline of some of the things we keep in mind, and the tools and resources we will use when designing and developing accessible user interfaces.
Before we even start coding
Checking our designs for color contrast issues is one of the earliest wins we can achieve when creating accessible user interfaces:
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