Accessibility of websites for visually impaired persons

TL;DR

This paper examines the challenges faced by visually impaired users in accessing websites, analyzing current technologies and recommendations, and presenting preliminary user testing results from the ACCESSPACE project.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of accessibility issues and evaluates existing guidelines through preliminary user testing with visually impaired persons.

Findings

Screen readers often fail to support interactive web features.

Existing accessibility recommendations are analyzed for effectiveness.

Preliminary user testing highlights specific accessibility challenges.

Abstract

Accessibility of websites for visually impaired persons is mishandled by screen readers which are not always adapted to interactivity needed by actual web/multimedia technologies. This paper analyses the difficulties to access to information with the use of different technologies and the existing recommendations for the conception of accessible websites for all. Preliminary results with visually impaired persons on our ACCESSPACE project website are presented.