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    Posted: 26Apr2007 at 5:11am
We'll be designing a site shortly that must allow accessibility for disabled individuals. I'll be using Lynx as my text browser and I've done extensive reading on the standards I've got to meet. Canada has their own standards, I believe in the states it's like article 508 or something like that.

What have your experiences been in designing accessible sites? Did you find that it extended your production time? Once you met the standards, did you keep meeting them on subsequent projects?

Considering our aging population, this will be becoming a more and more pressing topic in years to come.

"Designing Web Usability" by Jakob Nielsen has a wonderful chapter on this particular topic.

From his book:

"In the U.S. alone, there are more than 30 million people who have some such problem."

"Note: Disabilities Associated with Aging
Those of us who plan to be around for a few more years also have personal reasons to promote accessibility because as we get older, we will experience more disabilities ourselves. Estimates are that only 14 percent of people who are younger than 65 years have some kind of functional impairment, compared to 50 percent of those older than 65. Fortunately, many of these impairments are either minor or don’t interfere much with current web use (for example, reduced hearing). It’s definitely worth remembering what awaits us as we get older. Let’s design a world that will be good for us."




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