By bihongoye Erica (BAPRM 42535)

WEB ACCESIBILITY IN DESIGNING

According to University of Bristol (2009, pg 1) web accessibility is about providing unhindered access to the web for everything, regardless of disability and browsing technology. As this definition suggest that the web accessibility it mainly focuses on making the web easy accessible to both people with disability and others with no disabilities as in equal opportunity to use, understand, , navigate and interact with the web.

The following are the importance of web accessibility in web designing

Accessibility it provides out same opportunity for all web users to ensure good participation as well as daily integration in equal ways while interacting with the website.

The web accessibility has made many aspects of our lives to become easier in term of Education for example, online materials like books, journals, online degree also in employment aspect for example web designers and application of jobs and university in different web pages, government aspect, commerce, health care and other aspect.

Web accessibility it is also replaces the traditional sources of information and interaction for example academic materials and other print materials.

Web accessibility it is also offer the reliable opportunities in improving the lives of disabled people in their daily activities. For example online shopping also it reduces and overcome the barriers of wastage of time in surveying of things in shops.

Web accessibility is done in three stages as follows.

·         Before web designing,

·         During web designing and

·         After web designing

Before and during web designing the web designer should consider things like:-

Ø  The background should be pale and simple.

Ø  Use relative font size rather than absolute one.

Ø  Set high contrast between background colour and the color which you will use in your text.

Then after designing test your page with the range of yours including someone who is red-green color blind.