Leona Tomlinson: Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Website

Posted on 9/21/2008 by Matt

Leona Tomlinson rounds up a great list of considerations when building a Web site to help ensure that it is actually accessible, rather than systematically meeting a list of guidelines.

…we must look further than the guidelines if we are to create websites which are accessible to users with disabilities and the assistive technologies they rely on.

Comments

  • http://www.digimode.co.uk Digimode

    Great list to be gone through! Some basics, some interesting facts and some eye openers. Thanks for sharing.

  • http://www.evengrounds.com Tom

    Guidelines and standards definitely have their use and validity. However, I believe the current ones by no means address all considerations. The WCAG 2.0 is very promising, but as I have conducted a training course on it, I found out many of its shortcomings.