The following guidelines can help you to develop an accessible
writing style:
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Write concise descriptions to help people with cognitive,
vision, and hearing impairments. As recommended elsewhere in this guide, keep
sentences to one idea. Do not ramble.
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Keep the number of steps in procedures to a minimum. More than
seven procedural steps can create problems for all users, but pose additional
difficulties for people with cognitive impairments.
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Do not use directional instructions, if at all possible, such
as above, below, left, right. Users who are using a screenreader might have
difficulty finding the directions on screen. Some users with cognitive
impairments might have difficultly understanding the spatial concepts.
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Emphasize important information near the beginning of the
text, so that blind users and users with cognitive impairments can assess
whether they need to read further.