iLab 7: Usability and Accessibility

When using the screen simulator it was very difficult for me to understand what was going on at first, but as I started messing with things a little bit more it became a bit easier to navigate. I don't think I would be able to do this for every website I visited. It would be very difficult to do.

When using the low vision simulator it was difficult for me to view the page as a whole and I can only image when people who have those issues go through to view an entire website. I don't think I would be able to deal with that now, I may get used to it after time but it would take a while.

When using the distractability simulator it was very difficult paying attention to the web content while trying to also play the game in the bottom right. I think this would be very difficult to deal with when I am trying to focus on the content.

While using the simulation programs I discovered that you should use as few links as you can. Adding to many links could make it difficult for a user using a text to speech program could become confused, and make it hard for someone with vision problems to see every link available to them.

I found that using text a much as possible will help people with a hearing problem access and read my site much easier. Also, I found that when using an image you should always describe it in a very descriptive way.

Having one feature or the other could really hurt your site visitors and turn them away from your website. Having both as an option as the splash page on your website asking if the user has any disabilities preventing them from viewing or listening to the webpage. After they select whether or not one or more of these apply to them it would take them to a specific version of the website.

Yes, I believe that this will change the way I go about designing webpages from now on.

iLab 6: Navigation

iLab 5: Graphics & MultiMedia

iLab 4: Characteristics of Type on the Web

iLab 3: Visual Design

iLab 2: Site Structure

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iLab 1: Website Development Process

Description

This site would be about web design, there would be tutorials about different coding languages so people would be able to learn on their own and get familiar with how websites work.

Audience

The audience for the site would be people who want to be a web coder, and even current coders looking to get reacquainted with different languages.

Type Of Information

The content would be hosted on my own site and come from my server. I would be the one creating the databases and other things. I would later hire a team to help me maintain the website.

How Information Will Be Conveyed

Most information will be conveyed in text, but the actual tutorials will be in video format. People enjoy listening to something rather than reading it.