Today’s lecture was about disabled computer users and how you should design projects to incorporate there needs. It is actually law to accommodate less able users. Users have all different needs. Some have vision difficulties which means you need to choose sensible colour schemes. Others may be deaf so any audio files will need to have subtitles or a description of what they contain as the information would otherwise be useless. Others cannot see at all and use software such as dragon dictate or JAWS to speak text to them. For this reason images need to be captioned and videos annotated. These measures as well as others are all steps towards the internet becoming accessible to all users. You can have your website tested to see how user friendly it is, and if you pass you can put a logo that states it is for all users on your page. We also watched a video which shows how users with different disabilities use computers. Some have a brail pad, which translates text, line by line. Other users who do not have use of there arms move there heads onto sensor pads to interact with the computer. It is amazing what can be done to make technology available to all.
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