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Making UX copy accessible for blind people

Making UX copy accessible for blind people

From the course: Practical Accessibility for Designers

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Making UX copy accessible for blind people

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- [Instructor] In many instances, in your typical brain is able to see a word correctly even if the letters are misspelled. Let's look at a few examples. If you're able to read this, you are not rare. I've deliberately spelled a number of words on there wrong. Yet, lots of people will still be able to read it because in general, people read words as a whole unit and not letter by letter. There's an exception, people using screen readers because screen readers don't read whole units, they read letter by letter unless they recognize the characters as a word. You need to therefore make your UI copy short and succinct and free from errors, at least your headings and instructional information. Eyes skip past lots of text, but people using screen readers don't get that choice. So while you might like longer sentences or perhaps you have a friendly brand voice, you should avoid them for copy that's more instructional and…

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