✎ Technique: Content on hover or focus
Make it easier for users to interact with added content. Tooltips, drop-down menus, and popups are examples of added content.
Make it easier for users to interact with added content. Tooltips, drop-down menus, and popups are examples of added content.
All operations must use simple gestures that need only a single touch. If the site or application does use multi-touch gestures, be sure to also provide simple interfaces.
Ensure that functions that are triggered by moving a device or by gesturing towards the device can also be operated by more conventional user interface components.
Assistive technology users should be able to detect when important changes occur on a web page, With the use of a status message, information can be provided to the user without changing focus or unnecessarily interrupting their work.
Media player accessibility is essential for video content. Evaluate the accessibility and cross-device compatibility of the media player that comes with your video-distribution platform.
It's important the search facility on your site is logically and conventionally placed and constructed for optimal accessibility.
It's important to provide consistent navigation regions to navigate between a site's pages and—where there is a lot content on each page—between sections of pages.
Autocomplete widgets can be helpful for accessibility because they can make it easier to enter text by providing suggestions based on the characters initially typed.
For a number of reasons including data persistence, performance and security, it is sometimes beneficial to terminate idle user sessions. It's important to warn people a session is about to expire and give them the option to continue.
Modal dialogs can enhance usability by focusing attention on a specific message that requires a user action to continue.
An accessible modal dialog is one where keyboard focus is managed properly, and the correct information is exposed to screen readers.