Goal of Universal Usability/Accessibility

Time to dive back into interface design and topic that a lot of people usually don’t think about when designing a website or application, universal usability and accessibility. The World Wide Web Consortium developed guidelines for accessibility called Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 which helps develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. These guidelines are wide ranging and also cover practices that will help people not only with disabilities but people that might have older technology and slower connections. (Check out the list of guidelines here).
Now when most of us design …read more