It also depends what type of visual impairments. For example, there are like 6 types of color blindness allow, all which distort the colors in varying ways. If you're just talking about low vision, then you want to have larger fonts then normal. I'd say probably bump up the body font size one notch (so maybe 16 instead of 14), but also, as others have said, be flexible to user size changes.
Also, make sure you have very good contrast between your background and foreground. For vision impaired, it's likely to be better if you use a soft blue or yellow (very light) background with dark (not black, maybe #333) text, instead of white on black, because it causes less eye strain. On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Stuart Foulstone <[email protected]>wrote: > > http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/#tools > > > On Fri, November 26, 2010 11:25 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > G'day Everyone, > > > > I was wondering if any of you have done any work on sites for the > visually > > impaired? I have just started a projet for a school for the visually > > impaired and the site must cater for these people, and obvioulsy for > > people > > with normal eysite. > > > > 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 would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: [email protected] > > ******************************************************************* > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
