There are two general themes that will ensure a graceful transformation making content navigatible & understandible.
By following two basic guidelins when developing an acccessible website, you will benefit most constrained users. To make the tranformation more graceful follow guidelines such as these. Presentation & structure should be kept seperate. Text should be used whenever possible, or text equivelants. You can create documents users can receive even if they cannot hear or see; provide information that is equivelant to video or audio & will serve the same purpose. This does not mean that you will have to prerecord every page of every website for a blind person who may some across it. There are programs available for the blind, such as Screen Reader which much like it sounds, basically reads a screen of text to the user. It cannot read text that has been imbedded into graphics on a webpage. Text is quicker loading & better for search engine results for a website overall anyways. It is also helpful if documents are created that do not require any type of special hardware. To make the website easily navigatible & understandable consider these tips. Text should be easily understood, & the website should easily guide the user through it. These are some tips that every website developer should implement, not just someone trying to accomidate accessability. There should be obvious navigation tools that will easily direct the user that may otherwise be confused by icons & pictures used for navigation. These are just a few tips that can make the internet experience much easier & enjoyable for a user with constraints. Our goal at Effect Web Media is to implement these typed of practices in all of our websites. Usability is a part of the foundation that builds our quality websites. We enjoy working with clients that feel the same way. Clients that are in business for their customers aswell as themselves.
