Thursday, March 4, 2010

Some Suggestion To Resolve Accessibility Issues in Website Design

If you want increase productivity in your business and also want to that everyone know about your products or services then you must have to create an eye catching website that is accessible by all people despite their physical disabilities. Only a professional web design firm can do this for you. Here are some accessibility issues confronting a website, read along and find out whether your website is accessible to all or not:

Visual disabilities

There are broadly two types of users with visual disabilities, color blind and other is fully blind. To optimize your website for this category, these are a few things you need to consider:
  • Use images with text explanation. Alone an image may not be understandable
  • Choose text colors carefully. Color blind people may have a problem reading text in the same color of its surroundings and background
  • For completely blind users, use a non-visual browser such as a screen reader which reads the content on the website loudly.
Hearing Disabilities

These kinds of users can easily be accommodated by providing text and image descriptions to any of the audio material on your website.

Mental Disabilities

For people suffering with cognitive and neurological problems, you can do the following things.
  • Keep design simple
  • Keep navigation clear
  • Break content into paragraphs and bullets
  • Organize info on the web page
  • don’t use repetitive animation
These are some simple standards by which you can make your reachable by each of your potential users. Moreover, by giving priority to accessibility in web designing may also make your website available to other groups of users including:
  • Mobile phone, web-TV and low bandwidth users
  • Low literate users
  • Users with distracting surroundings such as noise or in a car
  • Slow learners
  • Other language users

1 comments:

  1. Hi,

    Well, I would say if you have well organized repository of your digital assets and well maintained client communications than it will be a lot easier for you to maintain accessibility of your website by putting in more appropriate illustrations and content.

    - Stella.

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