Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Text Equivalents Can Open the Doors of Perception

The striking visual elements contained in the Metropolitan Museum’s elegantly designed pages would not have to be eliminated to create a rich, accessible experience for the visitor who uses assistive technology. And because the sites we visited, like an increasing number of Web sites, are database-driven, many of the accessibility improvements we’ve discussed need only be designed and coded once in order to take effect across the entire site. For example, you can use CSS to position the navigation links to satisfy the expectations of sighted users. In the same process, you can make the substance of the page fully accessible to people using screen readers and related assistive devices. This means ...