Hi Daniel, It maybe has incorrectly become a by-word for accessibility, but web standards are certainly your first step to provide sites for vision or indeed other disability needs.
> I was wondering if any of you have done any work on sites for the visually > impaired? I have never specifically done a site for an audience explicitly identified as visually impaired, I've has presumed that users of any site maybe impaired and worked from that premise. > What are the considerations I need to take into account with a project like > this? eg ability to change contrast, text size etc? Are there any good > resources or advice you could share with me? It is a considerable subject area and there are a vast array of tools and resources, but here are a few modest suggestions. The good people of Think Vitamin have made available all their tutorial videos for accessibility for free; http://membership.thinkvitamin.com/library/accessibility/?cid=106 Vision Australia has a number of very good resources and are focused on vision issues; http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=740 Formerly of Vision Australia was a gentleman called Steve Faulkner, he created the Web Accessibility Toolbar, and is now in the USA with the Paciello Group and they to have a number of useful tools and resources; http://www.paciellogroup.com/index.php > > It would be greatly appreciated. > The only other consideration I would encourage you to think about is the content. If your clients are visually impaired then whilst a pleasing design a good thing, not at the expense of the information your audience is after. Hope this is helpful, Cheers, John Unsworth ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
