Accessibility



Accessibility in design means making the digital content user-friendly for everyone, no matter their abilities or disabilities. It's about creating interfaces that work well for people with different needs, ensuring equal access and a smooth experience for all. In this section, we will cover the essential and important part in when it comes to designing for accessibility in CET. If you want to further details about accessibility, here are some good resources:

Relying only on color excludes people with vision deficiencies. To add other kind of cues, like labels or symbols, will ensure that everyone can percieve and understand the information regardless of color perception.

There should be enough contrast between the background and the color of the text and icons. This includes text that appears on buttons, background gradients, images and other UI elements.

We want to CET to fulfill the requirements for WCAG 2.0 Level AA. This means that a contrast ratio of at least 4.5. There is a lot of resources on the internet to check the contrast value between different colors:

White space is the empty areas between and around elements. It's not a waste of space, use its to your advantage. Its a great way to enhance clarity, readability, and overall aesthetics in user interfaces.

A good example of using white space in your favor is to follow Gestalt's law of Proximity. According to the law, the brain interprent elements that are close together to be more related than elements that are further apart.

For more information about spacing, take a look at our Spacing & Layout page.

Inclusive writing is about using a language that respect and include everyone. It's a way of communicating that makes everyone feel welcome, regardless of who they are or where they come from.

For information, read our Inclusive language guidelines.