Tangled Web Accessibility

Be Accessible for Disabled Users

There is a lot you can do to make your pages more accessible to disabled users, without compromising the display for everyone else.

Don't require graphics.

(Did I say that already?)

Use <BR> in tables of links.

Navigation is a real pain for blind users. It's much easier if each link is on its own line. So if you have:

A link

Another link

Yet another link

It will look like this in a text browser:

[2]A link [3]Another link [4]Yet another link It will look like

You can put each link on its own line by adding a <BR> tag to the end of each cell, which makes the table look like this:

A link

Another link

Yet another link

Which looks like this in a text browser:

[5]A link
[6]Another link 
[7]Yet another link

Beware of color-blindness

A surprising number of people are partially color-blind. There is a discussion about designing for color-blind users on the web.

More information is available

The Designing an Accessible World project has many pointers to more information about accessibility.

Document author: Kevin R. Boyce (email: Kevin.R.Boyce@gsfc.nasa.gov)
This page was last modified on 16-Jan-98 at 2:28 PM