MM 440:
Web Presentation

Lecture//Accessible Design

Overview
The Question
Differences in Perception
Access Technologies

What to Consider
Background and Text
Images
Links
Frames
PDFs
Shockwave
Tables
User Interaction
Testing
Best Practices

Further Info

The growth of the World Wide Web means that people with serious sight problems and other disabilities now have the opportunity to enjoy a wealth of information and services that was previously unavailable to them, from up-to-the-minute news and travel timetables to online shopping and banking. With the help of synthesised speech and braille display technology, even completely blind people can use the Web.

Goals:

• to examine several different types of access technologies

• to look at some guidelines for appropriately designed websites using valid hypertext mark-up language (HTML)

You Will Learn:

• how to analyze existing sites' accessibility

• how to create a better accessibility for your sites

• the ways to save your users' time when they work through your site

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