Adactio: Journal—Applying the four principles of accessibility
May 31, 2024
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines—or WCAG—looks very daunting. It’s a lot to take in. It’s kind of overwhelming. It’s hard to know where to start.I recommend taking a deep breath and focusing on the four principles of accessibility. Together they spell out the cutesy acronym POUR:PerceivableOperableUnderstandableRobustA lot of work has gone into distilling WCAG down to these four guidelines. Here’s how I apply them in my work…
Source: Adactio: Journal—Applying the four principles of accessibility
The POUR principles of accessibility are in my experience far less well knows that we should be. I’ll have to confess it was real only this fantastic talk at AAA our online conference a couple of years back that went into each aspect in detail.
Here Jeremy Keith gives an excellent relatively succinct overview.