Creating a better user experience through accessible web design

To ensure that digital content is accessible, several aspects have to be taken into account during its development. The requirements for accessibility are very diverse and depend on the concrete group of users with disabilities, the different types of content and the format. To blind users, for example, accessibility means something completely different than to users with visual impairments or with a learning disability. The approach a content provider has to choose for a scientific article is different from that for interactive or multimedia content. Similarly, different tools have to be applied depending on whether HTML, a document format or another user interface is utilised to make the content accessible.