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Africa’s accessibility community

Digital accessibility (a11y) is a wide-ranging topic. It compels us to rethink how we design and develop digital products and services to ensure it includes people with disabilities.

What Africa a11y does best

Accessibility ensures all users — with or without disabilities — can access the same information and do the same functions. Accessibility is a process that belongs throughout the product development life cycle, from start to finish and beyond. It involves UX designers, developers, testers, and users (persons with disabilities). Accessibility benefits everyone including people with disabilities, seniors, and people in low bandwidth areas.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) describe how to make web content accessible to people with disabilities. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops and maintains the guidelines. You can further enhance user experiences by applying inclusive design principles.

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Our Story

With years of experience in digital accessibility, Technoprise Global is a woman-owned business with 40% of its staff having disabilities. We aim to improve accessibility of digital products and services in Africa through this platform.

Africa has a population of 1.4 billion people. About 15% live with disabilities [UN]. As we develop digital products and services, it’s important we understand the needs of all users as well as the unintended consequences of the products. Designing with people with disabilities in mind will help ensure that no one is left behind.

Accessibility is a journey and UX designers and developers are part of this critical ecosystem. Africa has about 700,000 developers [GSMA report]. We use this platform to educate, share, and collaborate with designers and developers to help improve accessibility of digital products and services in the African market.

Quick Facts

  • 80 Million
    Africans

    More than 80 million Africans have disabilities [Source: UN]

  • Mobile
    Technology

    75% of online traffic across Africa comes from mobile phones. [Source: Beyond Borders report *EBANX]

  • 96% of
    Home pages

    More than 96% of the top 1,000,000 home pages had accessibility failures [Source: WebAIM Million 2023]

  • Low Contrast
    Ratio

    83.6% of the top 1,000,000 home pages did not meet minimum requirements for low contrast text. [Source: WebAIM Million 2023]

Our Accessibility Platform

A community of UX and UI designers, developers, people with disabilities, and accessibility supporters.

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