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Make website open for people with disabilities
– help to make a difference!
Website accessibility for the disabled
people is an issue that is fast gaining importance. And it is a worthy
thought to consider. Not only can you help make life simpler for people
with disabilities but you too can benefit from it as an organization. If
more and more people with disabilities use your products and services,
it’s a win-win situation for all. Here are some things that you can do
or avoid to make your website welcome the disabled.
The World Wide Web Consortium sets technical
standards and issues guidelines for the Internet. It has drawn up a set
of recommendations for web site designers looking to create web sites
accessible to people with disabilities. Some key points are:
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Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element
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Ensure that all information conveyed with color is also
available without color.
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Ensure that equivalents for dynamic content are updated
whenever the dynamic content changes.
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Avoid designs that create screen flicker.
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Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a
site's content.
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Ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or
other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported.
Here are some reasons on how these
guidelines can be useful to your customers and help to create a
disabilities acknowledging website that is intuitive for the user:
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Long or complex texts may be difficult to understand for
deaf users.
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Smaller text might be hard to read by people with impaired
eyesight.
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Navigating through links may prove difficult for the
physically disabled, who can use one of dozens of different tools
instead of a mouse and keyboard to control a computer.
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Epileptics may have reactions to pages containing blinking
graphics/text.
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About The Author:
Garima Sharma
is a successful author and publisher at
www.1st-at-wheelchairs.com.
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and supplies.
10-06-04
