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✎ Technique: Reflow

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Use responsive design to allow your content to zoom and respond to various screen sizes.

✎ Technique: Text spacing

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People with a variety of print disabilities (including low vision, dyslexia, other cognitive disabilities) can benefit from being able to increase the spacing between lines, words, and/or letters on their own device.

✎ Technique: Label in name

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People with disabilities rely on interface controls that are used programmatically. These controls have a visual label, as well as a programmatic label, known as its Accessible Name.

✎ Technique: Status messages

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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.

✎ Technique: Building tables

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The  element is for data that one might find in a spreadsheet, consisting of rows and columns of cells. It's important to ensure that the editing process allows identifying row and column headers.

✎ Technique: Structuring content

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Adding structure to web content makes it more readable and comprehensible to everyone and especially to people with a visual or cognitive impairment that makes reading on-screen content difficult.

✎ Technique: Writing headings

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Headings are used to group and label sections of content, giving visual structure to the page and providing a means of navigation to screen reader users.