Re: FN-FORUM: RE: Adding an accessibility bar to a website - thoughts please

date posted 10th January 2007 15:47

Duncan Glendinning wrote:
> I am just starting on building what needs to be a fully compliant web
> site, and wanted your thoughts on accessibility features and having an
> accessibility bar on the site.
> I have seen these although sadly do not have any links to hand to
> illustrate what I mean. These usually have an increas/decrease font
> size links (which I imagine do the same as using the options in view
> in the toolbar), but also sometimes have things such as disable style
> sheet.

I sat a seminar a while ago about accessibility, the company had put
ideas like the text resizer bar to a panel of users with sight
difficulties and then presented their results in the seminar.

Apparently, out of a panel of 40ish users, no one used the text resizer.
What they found was that the panel all had their own way of working,
keyboard shortcuts, own software, etc. They finished by saying that time
would be better spent making the site as accessible as possible for
screen readers with regards to markup, layout etc.

This maybe all rubbish, but it kinda made sense to me.