Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Design Goals for Accessible Tables

Think back to our second user experience in Section 1—grappling with the bus schedule. Now that we have learned the capabilities of screen readers and talking browsers and the elements and attributes that make them most effective, let’s write out some design goals we’d want to achieve if we were to design a transportation site.

• Create a single bus schedule that both sighted and visually impaired riders can use easily and effectively.

• Enable riders who use screen readers to locate route information quickly and easily.

These points may seem to go without saying. But that’s the problem: when design goals go without saying, they all too often go without getting accomplished, too. Nobody means for this to happen. ...