Web Accessibility Features of a NetRaising Website
Every NetRaising website is built upon a CSS framework called YAML, one of the first in the world to prioritize web accessibility.
Visible Accessability
NetRaising’s designers are trained to use accessible color contrast ratios in our designs, and our developers work to anticipate the needs of our clients by creating flexible publishing layouts that promote good contrast between backgrounds and text.
Hidden Accessibility
Our custom-developed websites also have many “hidden” features to help encourage better accessibility for a diverse user base, including:
- Navigational skip-links
- Dynamic Alternate Text for redundant image layouts
- Dynamically manipulated heading tags to promote semantic content structure
- Dynamic HTML Templates that produce valid HTML content structures
- Minimal and Strategic use of ARIA tags
- Minimal use of JavaScript
- Keyboard/mobile-button friendly primary navigation models
- Standarde us of Home page button/tab link as a direct part of the navigation taxonomy, even when hidden from sighted users
- Direct link from interior pages to the WAVE evaluation tool so our client content publishers can quickly check the web accessibility of any page
- Descriptive text added for things like social and informational icons
- No Accessibility Overlays
Prelaunch Checks
NetRaising’s websites are tested near the halfway point of development and again the week before launch, to ensure that everything our developers think should work does. We conduct in-house UI testing on both mobile and traditional computer systems, and we actively encourage our clients to do the same, alerting us if they find anything we may have missed. We also use over a half-dozen third-party tools to check our work, including: