This means that many everyday activities carried out on the internet - booking a holiday, managing a bank account, buying theatre tickets or finding a cheaper credit card - are difficult or impossible for many disabled people...
The 1995 Disability Discrimination Act requires information providers to make their services accessible.
The problems most commonly encountered by the disabled website testers were cluttered pages, confusing navigation, failure to describe images and poor colour contrast between background and text.
GOOD WEBSITE DESIGN CHECKLIST
Provide text equivalence for non-text elements
Ensure good colour contrast between foreground and background
Pages must be usable when scripts and applets are turned off or not supported
Avoid movement in pages
Avoid pop-ups and don't change window without telling user
Divid large blocks of information into manageable chunks
Clearly identify the target of each link
Use the clearest and simplest language possible "
posted by Jen @ 5:00 AM
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