Eyesight Accessibility

Joanna Cox    – NYC, NY
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Eyesight Accessibility

When it comes to websites, accessibility is finally recognised by web designers as being as important as usability and compatibility.

Poor vision and vision disabilities are the most common accessibility issues. Here are a few examples of common vision impairments you can easily account for in your web design:

Color Blindness (or colour blindness):
While full color blindness (where the affected sees only in black, white and grey), is relatively rare, red-green color blindness is far more common and likely to affect a hefty portion of your users. Blue-yellow color blindness is less common but still a factor to consider.
To increase accessibility for color blindness, run your website through a free, online analysis tool and adjusts your colors to reduce blending between background and foreground. Ensure all your links are obvious by keeping them underlined!

Poor Eyesight
Poor vision is incredibly common and can occur due to age, inherited conditions and physical accidents. Many of your users will not have the same ability to read small text, so increase your accessibility by keeping your text above 12px. Black text on a white background is the easiest color scheme to read – avoid poorly contrasting colors  such as white on grey, or grey on black.

Full Blindness
To increase accessibility for the full blind to engage with your website, ensure it is readable by screen readers. A screen reader is a program that reads aloud everything that is displayed on the user’s screen.
To enhance your website for the blind, keep images to a minimum and when you do use them, equip them with an “ALT tag” – a tag that tells the browser and screen reader what the image is of. The screen reader will pick up this information and read it aloud, so keep it clear and accurate in its description.

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