How to improve the accessibility of your Django website?

The internet landscape is changing. For website owners, it is essential to deliver an accessible and seamless user experience by ensuring all visitors including people who are blind, hearing or vision impaired, motor impaired, color blind, dyslexia, cognitive & learning impaired, seizure & epileptic, and with ADHD problems; can see, understand, navigate, and easily use Django website conveniently!

Kick-start your efforts into improving website accessibility in a cost-effective way with Django web accessibility installation - an AI based accessibility solution for quick website accessibility improvements. It allows users to select available accessibility features as per their needs and peruse the content. It improves website accessibility for the standards including ADA, WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, WCAG 2.2, Section 508, Australian DDA, European EAA EN 301 549, UK Equality Act (EA), Israeli Standard 5568, California Unruh, Ontario AODA, Canada ACA, German BITV, France RGAA, Brazilian Inclusion Law (LBI 13.146/2015), Spain UNE 139803:2012, Japan JIS X 8341, Italian Stanca Act, Switzerland DDA, and Austrian Web Accessibility Act (WZG)!

To enable All in One Accessibility 10 days free trial, please follow this instructions.

Explore the following steps to integrate All in One Accessibility widget as a part of Django website:

• Install the Django All in one Accessibility module like the generic Django module.

• Update settings.py file with following lines of code.

              INSTALLED_APPS = [
                'django.contrib.admin',
                'django.contrib.auth',
                'django.contrib.contenttypes',
                'django.contrib.sessions',
                'django.contrib.messages',
                'django.contrib.staticfiles',
                'accessibility',
              ]
              
              TEMPLATES = [
                {
                  'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
                  'DIRS': [os.path.join('template')],
                  'APP_DIRS': True,
                  'OPTIONS': {
                    'context_processors': [
                      'accessibility.context_processors.admin_AIOA',
                    ],
                  },
                },
              ]

• Add script tag in your base.html footer.

              {% block footer %}
                <script id="aioa-adawidget" src="{{ AIOA_URL }}"></script>
              {% endblock %}

• Execute following command to migration All in One Accessibility Module.

  python manage.py migrate

• Once All in One Accessibility module installed, you can see the setting screen as below.

• Go to Admin panel and see the ACCESSIBILITY Tab and Click on Add link.

  

• To change widget colour- go to Admin panel ➝ All-in-one accessibility Settings

• Add Hex Colour Code.

  

• If you would like to change default widget position as you can select from dropdown as per your need.

  

• If you have purchased License key, then please add as per screenshot, and save the Model.

  

Skynet Technologies is a proud W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and IAAP (International Association of Accessibility Professionals) member that help us to be a part of the global accessibility community and stay up to date with compliance guidelines.

The businesses, large enterprises, Federal and state governments, educational institutions and universities who are considering remediating websites with full ADA WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, WCAG 2.2 compliance; we provide digital accessibility remediation services including audit, consulting, website remediation, document accessibility remediation, VPAT accessibility conformance report, regular maintenance, monitoring, training, and support.

If you are looking for enterprise or custom web accessibility solutions, request a free Full website accessibility remediation cost or email us at hello@skynettechnologies.com.