FixSwords t1_iyzcpy3 wrote on December 5, 2022 at 8:38 AM

Love the idea. Might I suggest you do a little work on site Accessibility? A quick look suggest that this site would not be usable for people with some visual impairment.

As an example: On mobile at least, on the homepage the white text on each article card does not have enough contrast against the image behind it in a lot of cases. https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/contrast-minimum.html

If you use the Chrome Developer Tools, you can run an Accessibility Audit on each page which will raise some key recommendations around this.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) has a rating system of A, AA and AAA in ascending order of how accessible a site is. You can see how to meet these standards here: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/

AAA and even AA can be quite tricky to meet, but perhaps start with A? This would then make your site usable by people with various disabilities and associated accessibility needs.

Famous-Somewhere9191 t1_iyzgl3e wrote on December 5, 2022 at 9:38 AM

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StevenWoodson t1_iyzthix wrote on December 5, 2022 at 12:33 PM

Absolutely agree with all of this! This site is such a great idea and with some small improvements even more folks would be able to enjoy reading it.

Chrome Devtools is a great one to use for testing, I'm also really fond of Siteimprove and Accessibility Insights too. I'd also urge you to try a bit of manual testing as well, for example I noticed I was unable to effectively navigate using keyboard alone because I couldn't easily tell what links had focus when I hit the tab key. This article Focus management and inert is a great primer on the subject.

Managing accessibility audits can be a bit daunting if you're just starting out, I would recommend checking out https://beinclusive.app/ to help ease some of that burden. It was purpose built specifically for this purpose, with a guided setup and helpful tips along the way. Try it free for a week!

happydazenews OP t1_iz1x0u6 wrote on December 5, 2022 at 9:28 PM

Thank you for the kind words, and great suggestion. I am working on having a button which narrates the article added soon!

I tried it with https://happydaze.io/spider-web-star/ article you can scroll to the bottom and there is a narration option. I appreciate you letting me know about the WCAG and its guidelines. I would love to make the site more accessible and will be working towards a AAA rating. Thanks again!