The
following pages intend to enhance your understanding on how web
pages can be made more accessible to people with visual or hearing
disabilities. Some tips and suggestions are also provided. However,
visitors are encouraged to refer to the full and comprehensive coverage
of the guidelines provided by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at
http://www.w3.org/WAI. Several tools and products for evaluating web page accessibility are available free of charge, please refer to the link below for more details: http://www.webaim.org/products/. Designers can use them to verify the accessibility of their web pages.
1.
Provide text equivalent for audio and
visual contents
2.
Ensure that contents can be easily accessed
even without the use of colour
3.
Identify clearly changes in languages
used and make contents simple and easy to understand
4.
Structure tables so that they can be
read easily and for complex tables, suitable markup or a linear
representation would greatly increase the accessibility
5.
Avoid the use of flickering and blinking
contents
6.
Avoid the use of pop up windows or other
windows without telling the user
7.
Avoid the use of complicated frames
8.
Provide clear and consistent navigation
mechanism
Accessible
sites
Some of
the government departments and related organisations have already
made their sites accessible by either adopting a separate text version
or enhancing the graphic features of their existing web pages. Some
examples are:
- Sites
with a separate text version provided -
- Site
with enhanced features built into existing web pages
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