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People with visual disabilities are individuals who are blind, have low vision, or have colour blindness.
People who are blind need text equivalents for the images used on the Web page, because they and their assistive screen reader technology cannot obtain the information from the image.
A person who has a visual disability will not find the mouse useful because it requires hand and eye coordination. Instead, this person must navigate the Web page using only the keyboard.
For example
Those who have low vision need the assistance of a hardware or software magnifier to enlarge the text beyond simple font enlargement.
People who are colour blind or who have low vision benefit from good contrasting colours.
When information is presented by colour alone, a person who is colour blind misses that information.
Similarly, if information is presented using any attribute by itself (for example, contrast, depth, size, location, or font), a user who has low vision might not detect the difference.
Magnification might reformat the location, change the contrast, or distort the size and fonts of the text and objects on the Web page.
It is best to use multiple attributes.
For example, if both colour and a fill pattern are used on different bars on a graph, they can be viewed in either colour or black and white.
Instead of using size attributes on the font element to denote a heading, the heading element should be used to correctly mark up a heading so that assistive technology can identify headings.
With the help of synthesised speech and Braille display technology, even completely blind people can use the Web. RNIB
The access needs of blind or visually impaired people can be as variable as the number of blind or visually impaired people visiting your website.
Flexibility therefore is the key to ensuring that your website is accessible to everyone.
Those with some vision may need to be able to enlarge text (or make it very small), or change the contrast or colours on the web page.
Others will have software installed on their computers to enable them to ‘hear’ web pages via synthesised speech, or to read the web page by using a Braille display.
You must ensure that the design of your web pages does not make it difficult for a blind or visually impaired person to be able to customise the page for his/her own needs.
Designing a website to be accessible to a blind or visually impaired person – or indeed for anyone – can be a complex subject.
The following general principles apply to designing for blind or visually impaired users, but are just as relevant to all groups:
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