Accessibility to textual and visual information on websites for visually impaired persons

TL;DR

This paper evaluates and improves web accessibility for visually impaired users by analyzing current technologies and testing a specially designed website, confirming the effectiveness of accessible design recommendations.

Contribution

It introduces enhancements to existing web accessibility guidelines and evaluates a new accessible website with visually impaired users, demonstrating practical improvements.

Findings

Preliminary evaluation confirms website accessibility benefits visually impaired users.

Existing recommendations are effective but can be further improved.

The ACCESSPACE website demonstrates the practicality of enhanced accessibility features.

Abstract

Access to textual and visual information for visually impaired persons becomes very difficult with screen readers which are not adapted to different websites.This paper analyses the use of different technologies for access digital content and to establish some ameliorations to the existing recommendations to accessible website conception for all. The preliminary evaluation results with visually impaired people of our website ACCESSPACE which is constructed with the existing recommendations, confirm the project's relevance.