I often wonder that our life is so puzzling, it has myriad of shades & myriad of colors.For some it oozes in blue with their success in their respective fields, for some it’s blistering with red since they have just explored their youthful tweets.
But, there are those unfortunate one’s who were acquainted to this blissful world with a blinding darkness due to their physical restrains. These are the disabled people who are unable to feel various ecstasies of life as they are bounded by their physical disabilities for an entire life.
I was reading a copy of recent survey which states that the people who are afflicted with some sort of physical disability are usually very hard working and courageous and they are not easily buckled down by these small hiccups in their life.
This sound’s great…
Now there might be few questions in your mind!
Don’t worry my friend, all your question will be answered within the realms of this article.
Question 1 : What is disability ?
The range of disabilities is broad and difficult to measure, however, it is important to have some feel of the extent of the issue.
The recent report of US health department cites that nearly 20 percent of the US population is afflicted with some sort of disability. Within this genre are the individuals with hearing, visual or motor impairments. Each category includes several other conditions beneath it. For eg : Visual impairment includes night blindness, colour blindness, myopia, hypermetropia etc. Disability also includes minor & temporary disabilities , for example, someone has broken his wrist may find it difficult to meet the day to day job requirements.
Incidently, all these statistics about the people with disability seems to be misleading. As a group of people grow older, the chances of them getting afflicted with some sort of disability are much greater than when they were young. Refer to the table below, it clearly shows that when we virtue disability over all ages then the percentage of people afflicted with it in US is 20 percent , in contrary to that disability skyrockets to 50 percent when we see it over the age group of above sixty years.
All in all disability is directly proportional to the age of individual living in normal health conditions.
Accessibilty is all about designing a web interface that enables user with disability access the information on internet with out any obstacle. It should allow people to use web with full freedom and comfort, so, even their ageing or disabled profile should not cause a worry.
Question 2: What is assessibility?
Accessibility involves two main issues: first, how users afflicted with disability access the information on internet, and second,how content developers and designers enable web pages to function seamlessly with the assistive devices used by disabled people.
For users there’s a challenge to identify the most convenient tools to access web based information. And for content developers, the challenge is to remove all the obstacles that hinder accessibility tools from functioning effectively. Normally, the obstacles are quite easy to overcome, but sometimes the accessibility solution requires some additional time and effort.
Question 3: How do disabled people access the internet?
1) Blind users…..
Internet users who cannot virtue, generally utilize a screen reading software, which reads the content of the webpage a loud in the earphones of user, or in some cases it crawl through the HTML coding and read back the alt and title text associated with anchor tags and images.
Want to try this software, click on this link JAWS screen reader, it will ask you for a download. Once you have downloaded this software , restart your system and click on the image pointing to JAWS Screen Reader(lying on your desktop).
Now open your favorite website using JAWS screen reader and try to get some sense in to how blind people intract with internet in their day to day routine .
2) People with partial sight impairment..
In order to make full use of internet, the people with poor vision may require to enlarge the size of text on the web page.
If you have a website then you can check if it is working efficiently with this group of people (having partial sight problem) by clicking the “view” link in the top bar of your Internet Explorer and then scrolling down to text size which will open up four options:
a) Larger
b) Medium
c) Small
d) Smallest
Remember, this feature is unable to format the text within the graphics, which may pose some problems for this category of people.
3) Colour Blindness
In a recent research, a group of health practitioners cited that ” Nearly 30 people in a group of 100 are crept with some sort of color blindness.” Some people cannot see red color, some green and others cannot see violet.
Different types of color blindness :
a) Deuteranope (a form of red/green color deficit)
b) Protanope (another form of red/green color deficit)
c) Tritanope (a blue/yellow deficit- very rare)
You can check how internet users suffering from different type of color blindness will see your website on their computers.
With a new visibility checking tool: VISCHECK.
4) Users who do not have mouse/ might be using voice assistance device like JAWS screen reader.
In an rare incident, some of your website user’s may not have access to mouse while browsing the Internet. Imagine yourself in their position by navigating your website by using tabs, return keys, backspace and shift tab.
Making your website functional with keyboard will also help your blind users as they will be tabbing up and down through the link structure of your website.
5) Deaf User’s
Deaf user’s can easily access your website in as much the same way as a normal user might be accesing, with one key exception — i.e. Audio Content.If it is important to provide some key elements in your website in audio, then you can show your gratitude for deaf users by providing all the information of your audio in text format or in a written transcript.
Message:
With grace of almighty, we all are living a blissful life. But we don’t know when there we will be acquainted with some sort of disability in our own corridor of life.Who knows when one of us entangles in to the malice of disability, and find ourselves rueing the vary disrespectful nature of website owners towards disabled people.So , we should proclaim equality for disabled. After all they are an integral part of our society , who have been treated harshly by life.
Courtesy : MiracleStudios.in—- Web Design Company
About the author:
Naveen Kumar
MiracleSTudios.in
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