Disability Access For Your Website

Your business may not specifically sell to people with a disability, but just because you don’t sell Braille novels or service wheelchairs, doesn’t mean you won’t have customers who have a disability. A person’s disability may not be immediately noticeable, but it will not be usual for a vision impaired person to come across your company website.

Therefore, regardless of your products or services, there are certain design and layout guidelines your website must follow to be accessible to as many people as possible. There are also simple choices you can make in your website design process which can ensure that your company and your website does not become known as discriminatory.

In making design and layout choices to enable people with a disability or vision impairment to use your website more easily, you are also likely to be making good design choices too. For example, to aid vision impaired people in using your website, make sure you choose fonts which are easy to read and not too bold, not too thin and not too linked up.

You should also make sure that your colour choices are not too bold and that they don’t clash as this ensures that your website is easy to look at and in turn read. It is also useful when using photos and images to ensure that the ALT tags – the text which appears when the mouse moves over the image – are added and relevant as this text also displays if the images have been blocked.

If a person’s disability is not vision related, they may have movement or mobility impairment so make sure that they can find the information they need as soon as possible, cutting down the amount of navigation and the number of clicks or amount of typing they need to do.

For more information about making your website accessible, or for help building a website which is accessible for people with disabilities, contact Web Leasing now.