Accessibility

​​It is of utmost importance that all Nets products and services are easy to use for everybody.

Nets online design system is compliant to WCAG 2.1A+AA+AAA http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/ , meaning we create excellent user experience for all end-users, also for those with, for example color blindness, dyslexia, blindness or partial sight, hearing loss, motor or cognitive disabilities. This includes end-users who use screen readers.

Also, the front-end code for all UI components is semantically correct and WCAG 2.1 A+AA compliant.

Guides for creating accessible design solutions:

• Design for keyboard or speech only use
• Design with mobile and touchscreen in mind
• Eliminate time constraints or provide Users enough additional time to allow them to complete their tasks
• Make large clickable actions
• Give form fields space
• Use a linear, logical and consistent layout
• Break up content with sub-headings or images
• Keep content short, clear and simple
• Use plain language
• Make sure that text is left aligned
• Make all headers and clickable elements descriptive
• Describe all images in ALT text and provide subtitles for video
• Ensure a copywriter has checked all content
• Ensure the design is accessibility tested and approved (see below)

Accessibility tests

To ensure that End-users with different types of disabilities find it easy to use the Nets digital solutions, it is important to test the design on multiple test platforms – with and without user involvement, as described below;

Online tests

Evaluate the design concepts during development via these online test tools:

• Screen reader check tool
• Contrast & colour checker
• LIX validator

User tests

In order to ensure an intuitive and accessible solution:

• Include Users with disabilities in target group scope:
• Motoric
• Visual
• Cognitive
• Hearing   
• Perform User Tests with disabled Users from the target groups throughout the development process; Observations in conjunction with Think Aloud and interviews
• Perform a final accessibility audit for WCAG 2.1 A+AA compliance check, before launch
• Post Launch Test; include disabled Users in the test