Web Standards and Accessibility

For this assignment, I was asked to look at my personal portfolio site and tackle accessibility issues. The assignment entailed me working on the basis of the question "How does your site modifications assist users with Visual, Auditory, Mobility & Dexterity, and Cognitive disabilities?"

When it comes to users with visual disabilities, one feature that I would say my site has that work in favour with them is the content arrangement. The content, text and information are all in close proximity. All related information are at the same corners.

Another feature is alternative text. I had previously had alternative text on most on my images, so I took this time to update the rest. I also had to recreate some of my visual interactions in the right order for the screen reader, which reads left to right.

For Auditory disabilities, my site has no videos or podcast therefore, they won’t be problems for users with hearing disabilities. But if any projects containing videos or podcast are added to the site, the transcripts will also be added.

I found Mobility and Dexterity accessibility features very interesting. One thing that I found cool was the mouse grid for voice recognition feature. I believe my site does need help here, so looking into how I can work on creating keyboard access and making voice recognition easy seems interesting.

Lastly, When it came to cognitive accessibility, I focused on literacy, reading and memory issues. I re-read my site and used plain language and also I scanned my site for any features that may cause forgetfulness and found none.

One feature that my portfolio site isn’t executing well is the screen reader. I made sure that all the information and images where arranged well and had alternative text but still the reader didn’t work as the planned. This is an issue I will like to tackle with this month and learn more of.

Portfolio Site