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Whereas accessibility relates to the technical side of a website, usability relates to the quality of a person's experience when interacting with your website, the efficiency with which that person can accomplish a task, and the satisfaction of the person completing the task.
- What is the relationship between usability and accessibility?
- What is the difference between usability testing and accessibility testing?
- What is accessibility and usability standards?
- What is an example of accessibility?
What is the relationship between usability and accessibility?
There is significant overlap between usability and accessibility, and not always a clear distinction between them. Usability is about making products easy to use. Accessibility focuses on designing products so that people with disabilities can use them, making sure there are no barriers preventing equal access.
What is the difference between usability testing and accessibility testing?
The purpose of usability testing is to understand how real users interact with a website and determine which features to add or improve. The purpose of digital accessibility testing is to understand how users with disabilities interact with a website by keyboard-only navigation and with assistive devices.
What is accessibility and usability standards?
The World Wide Web Consortium defines accessibility as an “equivalent user experience for people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments”, while usability is defined as the “design of products to be effective, efficient and satisfying” for end users.
What is an example of accessibility?
Something can be accessible to some people while being inaccessible to others. As an example, a video on a website may be accessible to people that are blind if the video player can be controlled using a keyboard, if the controls are labelled correctly, and all the content in the video is available as audio.
