Introduction
My Thoughts
After following a lecture on the subject, I realized that never before have I thought on user accessibility for people with special needs when developing a new project. Although my business sector may not be highly targeted at people with special needs, they still have the right to navigate through each and every website on the net without any problems. In my opinion, developers and companies don't take this much into consideration so they just make their website accessible for normal people. Since their are lots of websites out there and the majority of them wouldn't mind to even consider making adjustments, I thought that their should be some sort of software that does this on the client side. So I set myself to research some of these applications and to my surprise what I came up with was nothing. After giving it some more thought though, such software would be quite complicated to develop because of the diversity of website templates out there.
Accessibility is a major issue throughout the world. People with special needs are always thought of when things are built, either it is a university or a bar, mobile phones and cars.
User Accessibility
There's a certain legislation that one should provide a product/service which can be accessible by everyone. This is also true for websites, there are certain guidelines one can follow in order to develop the website in a way that it's accessible to everyone.
In order to design a website for people wth special needs these methods can be used:
1. Text resizing.
2. Text equivalents(images - alt tags, long descs, title properies)
3. Not too much flash & Javascript
4. Less movement in the website or atlest provide a stop or pause button
5. Use colors with less contrast
Here's a list of tools one can use to test your website to check whether it is accessible by people with special needs:
2. aDesigner
3. EvalAccess
After following a lecture on the subject, I realized that never before have I thought on user accessibility for people with special needs when developing a new project. Although my business sector may not be highly targeted at people with special needs, they still have the right to navigate through each and every website on the net without any problems. In my opinion, developers and companies don't take this much into consideration so they just make their website accessible for normal people. Since their are lots of websites out there and the majority of them wouldn't mind to even consider making adjustments, I thought that their should be some sort of software that does this on the client side. So I set myself to research some of these applications and to my surprise what I came up with was nothing. After giving it some more thought though, such software would be quite complicated to develop because of the diversity of website templates out there.
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