Designing for disabled people
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- fues
Any good resources on interface design for disabled people (both mentally and physically)?
Thanks you.
- riskunlogic0
You are in the right place pal!
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- fues0
I meant disabled, not trolls.
- trooperbill0
problem your gonna have is most of the info you're reviewing will be out of date.... browsers and technology have caught up and its a lot less technical for dissabled people to access web content
i use accessfiyforum.com when i have q's
- utopian0
I found your perfect match fues, his name is yurimon and he's a real special fellow.
He can be found here: http://www.qbn.com/yurimon
- bjladams0
not an answer so much to your question, but a good read:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/10/te…
although, i disagree with the the her complaint/accusation.
- bobkat0
I worked for a UK charity a few years ago and we built a website. The aim was to make it easy for all people (not just those with a learning disability).
We held workshops for people with a disability to tell us what would make it easier for them to use the website. Video was something that featured heavily. Larger font sizes (we even designed a new font that was more accessible), images that are relevant, content in plain, simple English. Accessibility of content is just as important as the build itself.
As there is such a huge spectrum of disability there is unlikely to be a one-size-fits-all solution. I guess the aim is to reach as many people as possible.
I'm sure if you contact any local disability organisations they may have a team dedicated to accessibility. This would be a start to deciding on the interface design as where I worked they really like passing on the information to other people.
Best of luck!
- omg0
- monNom0
Maybe the issue is that you've lumped all disabilities in together. You need to define what abilities you're going to design for, then you'll know what steps to take. You can think of ability is terms of a scatter plot. Most people are somewhere near the center of the graph. Those with disabilities fall out towards the edges. So your choices for one particular ability (vision) might be deleterious for another (cognitive). If you know that your users have poor vision, but do not have cognitive issues, you don't need to factor for that.