Huge Accessibility Improvement to Our Design System 🙌
Hi everyone, it's been a while! The Quix Design System team has worked on making sure that our building blocks are accessible, and we are happy to announce that all our components now have accessibility upgrades. Some things we have been paying special attention to: Keyboard navigation Screen reader compatibility Color contrast & visible focus indicators Programmatically determinable roles & states We used Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 as our standard and referenced WAI Patterns for keyboard interactions. Since not all parts of the customer portal is using the Quix Design System, the improvements will only be noticeable in pages that utilize Quix components. But rest assured! We're working on auditing the portal and addressing accessibility issues. In the meantime, if you find any accessibility bugs or pages that need attention, please reach out to me, make a post in this channel, or leave a comment below. We are a small team and would appreciate any help to guide us to issues that require attention. p.s. If you want to test out the Quix components, visit our Storybook (only available on the Equinix network)Welcome! Meet the Group & Team Members
What is this group? Welcome to the Accessibility Improvements Group we have created this space for customers and partners to share any feedback on Equinix accessibility directly with us. We want this to be a safe space to share feedback to ensure we make our user-centered products easy to use, efficient and enjoyable for all users. If you are interested in providing any feedback on accessibility or hearing changes that might impact our accessibility users, please make sure to select the follow button to subscribe to group notifications. Meet the UX Team! The UX team is responsible for co-creating user centered products and services that are easy to use, efficient, and enjoyable. We believe that the Equinix user experience is a shared responsibility that happens at the intersection of business, technology and design. We work closely with other teams—such as product, engineering, and marketing—to ensure our work aligns with the overarching strategies while making it as delightful and easy to use as possible. Below in the comments, you’ll hear from each of the amazing team members who will be part of this group!
Accessibility features in the portal
Good afternoon, I wanted to share some feedback from visually impaired portal users. The current portal layout and structure does not work very well with screen-readers and can be difficult to follow. For example, the symbols on the left-hand menu are very small and do not have an obvious meaning. We do not get advanced notice of changes to the layout of the portal, for visually impaired users this is especially challenging as they do not have time to learn the new layout in advance of the change. What are your plans for developing better accessibility within the portal? Is this something we could have a conversation about? Thank you.
