This article assumes you have basic working knowledge of how websites are built and run.<\/p>\n
Accessibility is about empathy. Individuals with impairments, disabilities or limitations deserve to experience the web, like those without disabilities. <\/p>\n
Ensuring a site is accessible takes more work, but the benefit is long term. Business are able to open shop to a whole new segment of users and ingrain the process of accessibility into the fabric of its business. <\/p>\n
Well, in a nutshell, accessibility is adhering to a set of recommendations outlined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In 2018, the law was refreshed to consider new guidelines that use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0<\/a> standard. In this standard exist numerous points such as:<\/p>\n Let’s consider individuals with age-related limitations. These are officially known as “Age-Related Functional Limitations.” According to a study completed in 2008 by the United Nations titled An Ageing World, the population of individuals over the age of 60 by 2050 will be 20 percent. When the report was created, the population was around 7 percent, so that’s a pretty large increase.<\/p>\n Older individuals encounter these age-related functional limitations in the form of:<\/p>\n For the sake of brevity, let’s take one of these limitations and expand on what it is, how to identify it in your own website, and what to do about it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The aspect of vision decline is a lot more complicated than would initially seem. There are many reasons that can contribute to vision decline including, but not limited to: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Causes of sight problems in older people<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n As you can see, AMD is the most common form of vision impairment in older people. To understand how to empathize with this condition, we should do some research into AMD. <\/p>\n Causes of sight problems in older people [RNIB 2008a<\/a>] <\/em><\/p>\n\n
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Looking at Vision Decline <\/h2>\n