On 26 November 2010 23:25, Daniel Anderson <daniela...@gmail.com> wrote: > G'day Everyone, > > I was wondering if any of you have done any work on sites for the visually > impaired? I have just started a projet for a school for the visually > impaired and the site must cater for these people, and obvioulsy for people > with normal eysite. > > What are the considerations I need to take into account with a project like > this? eg ability to change contrast, text size etc? Are there any good > resources or advice you could share with me? > > It would be greatly appreciated. > Apart from letting the user decide the font, some visual impairments mean you can't rely on the user using your colour scheme at all either. Such people will override the whole colour scheme to one suitable for them by using their own css for specific colour combinations. I have no idea what the guide lines are in such a situation.
Also consider people who might use a screen reader to have your website read to them rather than view it. They might prefer if you can get extensive menu options out the way instead of having them at the start of each page. They can get to the content quicker but it isn't SEO friendly. Forget about image maps, flash and fancy roll-over stuff and avoid using colours that are difficult to differentiate for varying values of ability to differentiate. Google shows a number of links on website accessibility - you might better info there. -- Kind Regards Lesley Binks ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
