Designing Universally Accessible Website

Geeta Punjabi, Raleigh, North Carolina
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Designing Universally Accessible Website

Is there a more magical place than the Web? Through the web, you can be transported to different places in just a few mouse clicks. But as the worldwide web continues to gain more popularity, the number of internet users with special needs also increases.

In designing your site, you must think of the universal audience, not just your target market. Remember that in the United States alone, around 30 percent of all the families have a member with some type of disability.

Hence, website designers need to make sure their designs can accommodate people with special needs. Among these special needs are deaf, blind, motion impaired, text-only browsers, and cognitive impairments.

It’s good thing that nowadays, designing a web page for individuals with disability is no longer difficult. Most often, the designs made are a much cleaner and are more user-friendly.

A well-designed website will be able to automatically accommodate visitors with special needs. If your design clearly points out the purpose of a page and the navigation is logically laid out without depending on the Java-Script, then it could cater all types of visitors. Bear in mind that for a site to be universally accessible, its design should offer two different schemes to accomplish one goal.

Web designers have to understand how people with disability explore the web. Blind individuals are usually assisted by screen reader software. Such software reads one word at a time, row by row. The primary method used by designers to explain graphics included on the site is the use of ALT text. If you put an image to decorate the site, then use the description “”. This description will tell the speech synthesizer to ignore the image. However, if the images you put are links situated next to each other, put a trailing space in the ALT text, or surround it with brackets. For image maps which are needed for information or site navigation, every section must be labeled with the right ALT text and be sure the information is available the other way around.

To help those motion-impaired visitors, designers need to clearly label the navigation options and make sure they are easy to click on. In presenting information, it is good to use bullet points. They aren’t just easy to read and are visually attractive; they are also easy to understand, especially to those who are just listening to the information.

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