Creating a website for users with vision impairment
The audience for my poster is users with visual impairments. The goal of this poster was to demonstrate and highlight serval things that you should and shouldn’t do when building a website lie the Greenspring Review so that you can make it more accessible. I decided to choose users with visual impairments because it can span a large audience from young people with actual visual disabilities, too older people who simply just have a harder time seeing things.
In the poster, I list in two different columns things that you should do for a website as well as things you shouldn’t do for a website with users who are visually impaired. In the first column, it lists all the things you should do for your website. The first item I list under the “Do” category is to use contrast colors. Having a starkly different background color as the color of your text and material will help someone with visual impairments easily identify elements on the page. Next, it is important to use large font. This will enable the user to clearly discern what the word is instead of having to struggle with smaller fonts that may be hard to read. After this, having voiceover accessibility is important because it allows the reader to listen rather than struggle to see what is on the page. Fourth, Best that you are able to space out the material on your page. If it is all cluttered together then the user will have a hard time discern different elements. Lastly, using keyboard shortcuts for your websites ensures that the user is able to more efficiently navigate through the webpage rather than having to look for certain elements.
Equally as important as the list of things you should do with a website for visually impaired people, there is a list of things you should not do. Cluttering material together is a good way to confuse and complicate the understanding of your website from somebody who is visually impaired. Keeping good distance between elements will help them be able to read what is on the website. Second, do not use similar font colors as the background color. When you do this, it is hard to distinguish the difference between the background in the actual words that are on the page. Next, avoid using bubbly text fonts. When the font is more abstract, the visually impaired user will have a harder time distinguishing words as opposed to if the font was straightforward and clean. After this, avoid using small sized font. When the font is too small the impaired user is unable to read the elements on your website does reducing your websites impact. Lastly, avoid using very detailed pictures. When you do so, it makes it nearly impossible for someone with a visual impairment to understand the importance for detail of the photo.