Re: ADA guidelines for website design

[Rahel Bailie <rbailie -at- CASTLETON -dot- COM>]

There's a Canadian site, perhaps the Coalition of People with
Disabilities site, that gives guidelines for web design. Some
considerations are typeface, i.e. don't force serif type through
stylesheets or PDF files of critical material, keep the ability to
reformat to LARGE type without awkward line breaks appearing, and for
people who turn off the graphics, make the graphics labels meaningful. I
don't remember the other guidelines off hand, but I know they exist on
line.

Rahel

-----Original Message-----
From: Formichella, Joseph [mailto:Jformichella -at- NCSLINK -dot- COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 10:16 AM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: ADA guidelines for website design


I would imagine that the simplest way to make your intranet accessible
to visually-impaired staff members would be to provide them with a
larger monitor, and to adjust their browser to display high-contrast
colors.

Other than that, I can't think of much you could do as far as web page
design goes.

Joseph Formichella
National Computer Systems
jformichella -at- ncslink -dot- com
602-827-7381

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> From:         Laura J. Lockhart[SMTP:LLOCKHART -at- ABIM -dot- ORG]
> Reply To:     Laura J. Lockhart
> Sent:         Tuesday, October 27, 1998 7:38 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      ADA guidelines for website design
>
> I just had a conversation with someone regarding ADA (American
> Disabilities=
>  Act) mandates for website design... a totally new concept for me.
> I've =
> recently been assigned to a committee to help my company create an =
> Intranet, and it never crossed my mind that the web pages should be
> coded =
> to accomodate users with impaired vision or hearing. Though it's not a
> =
> situation we need to cope with right now (i.e., we don't have any =
> employees who rely on voice recognition software or the like), but
> since =
> we're just getting started, we may as well do it right from the
> beginning. =
>  Aside from graphics labeling, what else should we be considering with
> our =
> design?  Our intention is to cut down on paper forms (timesheets,
> expense =
> reports) by having them online, so it will be important that all
> employees,=
>  present and future, have full access to our intranet.  If there's
> anyone =
> out there with experience in the fine points of this matter, I'd be =
> interested in hearing your suggestions and/or recommended references.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Laura Lockhart
> Copy Editor, American Board of Internal Medicine
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