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ICAWEB402A Confirm accessibility of website for people with special needs By Angela Bice

ICAWEB402A Confirm accessibility of website for people with special needs By Angela Bice . Identify Accessibility Standards .

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ICAWEB402A Confirm accessibility of website for people with special needs By Angela Bice

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  1. ICAWEB402A Confirm accessibility of website for people with special needsBy Angela Bice

  2. Identify Accessibility Standards • The standards or legislation defines how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. WACG 2.0 has 12 guideline that are organised under 4 principles which include: - Principle 1: Perceivable - Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.

  3. Principle 2: Operable - User interface components and navigation must be operable. • Principle 3: Understandable - Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable. • Principle 4: Robust - Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.

  4. Principle 2: Operable - User interface components and navigation must be operable. • Guideline 2.1 Keyboard Accessible: Make all functionality available from a keyboard. • Guideline 2.2 Enough Time: Provide users enough time to read and use content. • Guideline 2.3 Seizures: Do not design content in a way that is known to cause seizures. • Guideline 2.4 Navigable: Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are.

  5. Visual Disabilities • This can include people with low vision, colour blindness and blindness. • Barriers that may occur could include: • Video that is not described in text or audio, • Web pages with absolute font sizes • Colour that is used as a unique marker to emphasize text on a Web site • Text that inadequately contrasts with background colour or patterns.

  6. To overcome some of these barriers you can download some software like: • Screen readers • Voice browsers • Text based browsers • Use the alt”” tag for images • Refreshable Braille display and tabbing through heading and link

  7. Physical Disabilities • This can include motor disabilities like weakness, limitation of movement, joint problems, missing limbs and pain that impedes movement. • Barriers that may occur could include: • Time-limited response options on Web pages • Browsers that do not support keyboard alternatives • No tabbing in forms

  8. To overcome some of these barriers you can: • use a specialized mouse • Keyboard keys easily accessible • Use a code for tabbing (<A TABINDEX="1" ACCESSKEY="P" HREF=" ....">) • A pointing device like head-mouse • Voice recognition software • Eye-gaze system

  9. Hearing Disabilities • This can include people with hard of hearing, deafness, deaf-blindness, non English speaking • Some barriers can include: • No captions or transcripts • Text cannot be adjusted • Voice only operated sites

  10. To over come some hearing disability barriers you can: • Captions • Volume controls • Transcripts on sites • Images with descriptions • Language options

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