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Visually Impaired Accessibility
Gracust
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Hi,
I am after some advice as to how to make a web site accessible for visually impaired viewers. Is it enough to point out how to change the text size in the browser, have the option of another separate page or is there an easier way to achieve it?
Many thanks...Gracust
I am after some advice as to how to make a web site accessible for visually impaired viewers. Is it enough to point out how to change the text size in the browser, have the option of another separate page or is there an easier way to achieve it?
Many thanks...Gracust
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hold down ctrl on the keyboard and use the little scroll on the mouse(you can also go on view, text size the choose the size if the text you want .) you might also want to look on control panel accessibility options0
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Visually impaired - direct to a separate part of the site where you use larger size text.
Blind - avoid the use of menu buttons or, where unavoidable, make sure the IMAGE ALT text describes the button function. Similarly for images, ensure the IMAGE ALT text describes the image.
Avoid using anything that will prevent text reader software from reading the text. For instance don't convert text to an image. Don't use fancy scripts to prevent the text from being copied.0 -
Moneymaker wrote:Visually impaired - direct to a separate part of the site where you use larger size text.
Actually that is not best practice. If you design well, separating content (in html) from layout (in separate CSS file) then people should be able to customise how they view pages for themselves. Your html should be structured according to how your content is structured and not how you want things to look (that should be dealt with by the CSS stylesheet). So for example lists should be marked up as lists (menus too) even if you want them displayed differently, e.g. without numbers or bullet points, or horizontally; all that can be achieved with CSS. Your HTML page should be organised logically so that it makes sense if someone starts at the top and reads through it, sinc that is essentially what a screenreader will do. If you want to organise things in a different order on the page itself, again that should be done through CSS. Avoid fixed widths as they reduce people's ability to customise how a page looks.
Remember that there are people with other disabilities too who may access websites differently, e.g. using keyboard or voice commands only, no mouse. So make sure you are not coding things in which require use of mouse, e.g. javascripts that make changes when the mouse is rolled over part of the page.
There's lots more. Try looking at sites like https://www.accessify.com or https://www.webaim.org. Accessify has online forums on accessibility too.
If you use Firefox, there are two really useful extensions. Web Developer and Mozilla Accessibility Extension. They make it much easier to check your progress.0
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