Accessibility.
Artemis aims to meet or exceed the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA. While these practices were developed for the web, they are robust enough that they should be applied to all content wherever possible. Read more about what meeting standards means here.
The rationale for accessible design has been described in the WCAG 2.2 as:
Accessibility involves a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities. Although these guidelines cover a wide range of issues, they are not able to address the needs of people with all types, degrees, and combinations of disability. These guidelines also make web content more usable by older individuals with changing abilities due to aging and often improve usability for users in general.
WCAG 2.2 is developed through the W3C process in cooperation with individuals and organizations around the world, with a goal of providing a shared standard for web content accessibility that meets the needs of individuals, organizations, and governments internationally.
Our guidelines, design system, and assets have been developed with accessibility either built in or explicitly noted. In other words, to follow these guidelines is to follow the POUR principles as have been outlined in the WCAG 2.2:
Perceivable.
Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.
This means that users must be able to perceive the information being presented (it can’t be invisible to all of their senses).
Operable.
User interface components and navigation must be operable.
This means that users must be able to operate the interface (the interface cannot require interaction that a user cannot perform).
Understandable.
Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable.
This means that users must be able to understand the information as well as the operation of the user interface (the content or operation cannot be beyond their understanding).
Robust.
Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.
This means that users must be able to access the content as technologies advance (as technologies and user agents evolve, the content should remain accessible).
For a quick reference guide of all guidelines, please see https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/quickref/