How to improve the accessibility of your Astro website?

By: Skynet Technologies USA LLC
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Astro web accessibility widget

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 Astro website conveniently!

Kick-start your efforts into improving website accessibility in a cost-effective way with Astro All in One Accessibility - 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)!

Step wise instruction, How to enable the All in One Accessibility 10 days free trial on your Astro website?

  • Click on this URL http://usya.nchicorp.com/all-in-one-accessibility. Select “START FREE TRIAL” button as shown in the following screenshot.

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  • Fill out the form with all the details.

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  • Select the plan based on your requirements and click on “Continue” for the next step.

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  • Fill out the following payment details and submit it. You will be auto-charged after 10 days if you do not cancel the free trial subscription plan.

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  • Once the signup is completed you would receive an email notification with widget integration & dashboard access details.

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  • From the dashboard, click on the "Widget Settings" to change the widget icon type, icon size, color, and position based on your website’s look and feel. Enter custom accessibility statement link if required. Include GA measurement ID to track the widget usage.

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

  • Open your Astro project.
  • Then go to the index.astro file (Root directory->Project Name (as per you give)-> src->layouts-> layout.astro) (as per your Theme/Template go to Head or Footer section) and open it.

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  • Once the script has been added please check your website home page.

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  • Here you can see the “All in One Accessibility widget”.

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Note: We haven’t tested all the versions of Astro. In case if you have any issues, kindly reach out to [email protected]

Reach out if you need any help with the installation or technical assistance! We’d love to help!

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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 managed website accessibility remediation and compliance solution 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 ADA website accessibility remediation quote or email us at [email protected].

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