Make sure that Your Website is Accessible by All

Drake Moore      – Raleigh, NC
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Make sure that Your Website is Accessible by All

It is almost impossible to make a multimedia website that will be accessible for every user on the Internet. Whenever you use multimedia on your web pages you have the possibility of shutting out prospective users such as, visually impaired users who cannot see content like graphics, video, or animations. In order for the visually impaired to be able to access visual content, they will have to use a screen reader, which your design should take into consideration.

The hearing impaired users would rely heavily on content they can see, so they need a visual option to audio materials. Programs like Section 508 and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) have created guidelines and mandates which require that non-text content be made in an alternate format that is accessible to disabled users, like text captions for audible content and text descriptions of visual content.

This is why it is so important when deciding to use multimedia content on a website, to consider users with disabilities. You need to consider also users who are connecting to the Internet using slow modems and older computers, as well as physically disabled users.

The best way to make sure that your content is accessible is to offer alternate versions that are designed to accommodate different users. When creating a web video using QuickTime, designers can link alternate versions of this content saved at a range of levels of quality and compression. This way when a user requests the movie through a web page, QuickTime will send the version that the user’s network connection can use best.

This sustains the differences in technology resources, but optional views also assist those who are unable to experience multimedia due to physical causes. Using alternative options will allow your content to be experienced by more people regardless of a physical or technology deficit.

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