- From: Tim <dogstar27@optushome.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:04:40 +1000
- To: WAI Interest Group list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
What a huge question I have trying to answer by example for years always falling short of the goal: Validate your code. Use automated accessibility testing. Meta tags in header with links to accessibility statement help page A good default error 404 page with a search function with easy tab index into the search fields Alt tags. londesc of images Tab index order through the page. Keyboard Shortcuts Skip Navigation links Relative Font size percentages or em Consideration for colour blindness as well blue is the rarest form Voices for CSS for when they are supported? Provide an accessibility statement etc etc http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Access/index.html#skipnav Tim others have written: Olivier : you will also have to explain the graphical choises of the website, because a website that uses sharp lines has not the same emotive sense that a website that uses round corners... Alastair I don't believe so. If you wanted to give a sense of the design of the site, you would do it once, perhaps something hidden on the homepage. As a visual designer, if I choose to give a web page round corners and bright colors to convey a sense of friendliness and youth, I think it's part of the important communication on the page. Even colleagues who don't value visual design will be somewhat influenced by a competent designer's choices. If those colors and corners are described in text anywhere on the page, the fact of their existence is communicated but the purpose of their existence isn't conveyed. And that purpose is what folks like me are sought after and paid for. So help me. What would it take for a communicator to convey a sense of (at least in this imaginary instance) friendliness and youth to someone with limited or no vision? Surely time wasting bits of descriptive text may have the opposite effect. Friendliness would be implied by usability, I would think. So as a visual designer, how can I ply my craft effectively to someone who can't, and perhaps never could, see? What sort of additional layers of not verbal information can I use? The Editor Heretic Press http://www.hereticpress.com Email dogstar27@optushome.com
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