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04-22-2014, 02:51 PM
9 Simple Tips for Making Your Website Disability-Friendly
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The Internet isn't always "one size fits all." Every day, inaccessible web design prevents billions of people in the disabled community from an easy online experience.
For those with visual impairments, learning difficulties, hearing loss and more, there are dozens of unique challenges waiting behind every URL. But building a disability-friendly site is a lot simpler than you might think.
See also: 9 Apps and Resources to Learn American Sign Language (http://mashable.com/2014/04/21/how-to-sign/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Laurence Berry, a designer for UK-based design and tech organization FutureGov (http://wearefuturegov.com/) who has also written extensively (http://wearefuturegov.com/2014/03/accessibility-understanding-designing-and-coding-accessible-products/) about accessible web design, says the easiest way to build user-friendly sites is to figure out their key obstacles Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/website-disability-friendly/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The Internet isn't always "one size fits all." Every day, inaccessible web design prevents billions of people in the disabled community from an easy online experience.
For those with visual impairments, learning difficulties, hearing loss and more, there are dozens of unique challenges waiting behind every URL. But building a disability-friendly site is a lot simpler than you might think.
See also: 9 Apps and Resources to Learn American Sign Language (http://mashable.com/2014/04/21/how-to-sign/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Laurence Berry, a designer for UK-based design and tech organization FutureGov (http://wearefuturegov.com/) who has also written extensively (http://wearefuturegov.com/2014/03/accessibility-understanding-designing-and-coding-accessible-products/) about accessible web design, says the easiest way to build user-friendly sites is to figure out their key obstacles Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/22/website-disability-friendly/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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