The
digital information age has definitely alleviated present living conditions of most people in the world. This is because of recent developments in assistive technology. Even people with disabilities now have access, due to necessary navigation support, to the information that can be found on cyberspace. But, there are certain limitations in their navigation through the information on the pages of most internet sites. Yet, there are minor tweaks in which you could improve the accessibility of the pages of your internet site.
Thus, I urge you to make it a point to use
text equivalence in designing and developing the pages of your internet site. This is because the disabled community rely heavily on an application which converts text into speech output. So, think of it as designing the pages of your internet site both for visual navigation and audio browsing. With your graphical links, kindly put in text equivalence which describes the link, plus the page or the internet site where clicking on the link would take the internet surfer. Also, make it a point to place an alt tag for the graphical contents on the pages of your internet site, such as charts and tables. Put in an alt tag for each graphical content with enough information on the exact nature of the chart or table. This would evidently increase your projected internet viewer market, because recent studies have shown that disabled internet surfers spend more time, specifically thrice as much, browsing and navigating through cyberspace than most able-bodied individuals.
