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Help & HintsAbout this Project
This knowledge trainig website was developed for an assignment at uclan / 2008.
The Idea behind was: Focus on kitchen and bathroom safety for generation 60+ with and without disabilities! Develop a Website instead of a Flash Application for accessibility reasons.
Features of this website to support accessibility:
- W3C XHTML Standard
- W3C CSS Standard
- Evaluate W3C AA, Checkpoints
- Optimized for Screen Reader Tests
- Keyboard Shortcuts / Accesskeys / Tab Index available
- Subtitles / written version of videos
- Unicode encoding
- Tooltips
- Optimized for IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari
- Flexible Font Size
- Optimized Print View
- No further Downloads needed
- Color guided Navigation
- Big targets
- Clean / easy to understand layout
- Flickr -> Creative Commons Photos
- Icons - Common used Symbols
- Alternative Descriptions for Photos
Further Reading
- http://www.otal.umd.edu/uupractice/elderly/
- http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-usability/older-users.shtml
- http://www.aarp.org/
- http://www.d.umn.edu/is/support/Training/Online/webdesign/accessibility.html
- http://www.nomensa.com/resources/articles/accessibility-articles/five-assistive-technologies-you-should-be-aware-of.html
- http://www.skillsforaccess.org.uk/philosophy.php
