Usability and Web Accessibility
Assistive devices and technologies come in a wide assortment each designed to address specific limitations and help those with those limitations lead a normal or close to normal lifestyle. These devices can help address problems with hearing loss, or voice, speech, or language-based communications. A great number of devices and technologies are now available to help those with limitations access and use the internet in ways never before possible.
Understanding Web Usability
In order for a website to effectively deliver content to the user, several key factors must be present. First, the website must be available and accessible. Availability is a straight forward concept where the website must be reachable and functioning. The accessibility of a website is a bit more of a complicated issue. According to the Web Accessibility Initiative, “Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web and that they can contribute to the Web” (Henry, 2005).
Next, a website must have clarity. Clarity refers to a websites ability to provide visitors with the information they are looking for. This can be accomplished by designing the website with simplicity,
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ALDs operate by amplifying the sounds one wishes to focus on and dimming undesirable sounds such as background noise. ACC devices help those with communications disorders express themselves better. Alerting devices emit sounds or lights indicating an event has occurred (“Assistive Devices for People with Hearing, Voice, Speech, or Language Disorders,” n.d.). Most web-related assistive technologies fall under the category of ACC
It is important to determine what a website wants from the website visitors, as well as understanding who
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It includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities. It also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. AT promotes greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to, or changing methods of interacting with, the technology needed to accomplish such tasks.
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Currently the use of multimedia such as sound, still images, moving images are all used in all website to make their content more interesting and to make the design of the website aesthetically pleasing, interesting and easy to read. Therefore, it is a necessity to think how accessible of the content of the website is, this is called 'web accessibility ' which accommodates all the users, such as those with disabilities, normal users, or elderly. This is particularly important for those with disabilities, websites should be made with consideration for this group and the content and services should be made accessible as equal as those normal users (Henry, 2006).
Accessibility for the web means making sure that your web pages and applications are available to everyone, including people with disabilities.
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