A11y Academy: Accessible Content Adaptation
Accessibility (a11y) ensures that digital platforms can be used by everyone, including people with and without disabilities. Different users need different requirements, visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive, to interact with the content. At this moment plain X provides a good coverage of WCAG AA level. One of our main goals is to become a platform fully accessible for everyone. Learn below which tools we provide to achieve that goal and how those tools help people with disabilities.
Screen reader users (Blind users)
plain X ensures keyboard accessibility. It provides semantic HTML structure, descriptive alt text for images, and provides meaningful link labels.
Limited Vision
plain X provides the environment compatible with screen magnifiers as well as high-contrast elements.
Deaf or Hard of hearing users
plain X provides and produces transcripts and subtitles for audiovisual content. With voice synthesis the transcribed or translated text can be set to audio. When dubbing the sound level of foreground and background sound can be adjusted.
Color blind users (Red-green color blindness)
plain X uses labels and icons alongside color to convey information for better accessibility.
Limited Motor Skills
plain X interface has full keyboard support and provides the possibility of navigating the platform in a logical tab order. The hotkey combinations are available to help to perform actions specific for the text editing, as well as navigating the platform in general.
Learn more about the available hotkeys and how to access them here.
Photosensitivity
There are no elements with flashing or strobing effects present on plain X interface. However, we advise to verify the content of the media items users work with on the matter of presence of such elements. We also advise the content creators to include the correspondent warning in their content for people with photosensitivity.
Your feedback is very much welcome!
We regularly test plain X to stay accessible. If you have experienced a barrier, please let us know using this form.
