Tips for Digital Inclusion

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Today, there should be no barriers for people with special needs (for example, visual impairments, tremors, or dyslexia) to use a website, service, or application. Creating a product with digital inclusion is no longer just following social trends, but also an opportunity to get closer to your audience, to be more customer-oriented and humane.

Riverstart CEO Andrey Nikonov shares the cambodia whatsapp phone number team's experience of working on accessible websites and examines what practices developers can use and what requirements for digital accessibility exist in Russia and abroad.

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Content:

What is digital accessibility
What problems can people with special perceptions encounter on websites?
How to take into account the peculiarities of perception when developing digital products
Is it necessary to make a website accessible? Requirements for digital inclusion in Russia and abroad
Summary: How to Make a Website or Service Inclusive
Why Companies Need Digital Accessibility
What is digital accessibility
In our country alone, according to official statistics , there are more than 11 million Russians with disabilities. Among them are, for example, visually impaired people who find it inconvenient to use the site in standard mode.

People with dyslexia, color blindness and other disabilities do not have disabilities and are not included in statistics, but they can also face difficulties when using a digital resource.

Any person should be comfortable using a website or application independently. Digital accessibility is an approach to creating software that is accessible to any user, including those with disabilities or various health conditions.

As developers of digital systems for business and government, we at Riverstart are exploring how to make products more accessible to target audiences, as well as varying the degree of inclusivity. On each specific project, this depends on the customer’s requirements, but in our experience, they also strive to increase the inclusivity of their product.

What problems can people with special perceptions encounter on websites?
Various features of perception and health limitations can interfere with studying the content offered by digital products and limit the use of their functions. Disability and special needs are distinguished.

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A disability is a limited ability to live, it can be permanent or temporary. For example, blindness or color blindness is permanent, a broken collarbone is temporary. Not all digital products take this specificity into account.

What features can be identified that influence the use of digital products:

visual acuity: myopia (nearsightedness), farsightedness, blindness, other features and diseases;
dyslexia - impaired reading ability;
daltonism - color blindness;
motor disorders, slow reaction;
attention deficit disorder;
diseases in which active animation or flashes of color can trigger an attack.
I will take a closer look at the tasks that digital product developers must implement to make a website, application or service accessible.