Accessibility evaluation
Making your website available to those with reduced accessibility, such as the visually impaired, places special demands on your system. NetLife Research has the necessary expertise to help you make your website more accessible – without compromising the user experience for others.
An accessibility evaluation of the pages is performed by evaluating the pages against established guidelines for use of colour, text size, contrast, page coding and how best to adapt the page contents for all users.
Usability testing with the visually impaired is often carried out alongside general usability testing. It does, however, require a slightly different methodology.
Visually impaired users may use special aids such as:
- Screen readers/voice synthesis equipment – where the webpage content is read aloud by a synthesised voice
- Braille display. Webpage content is converted into Braille and appears on a display connected to the PC.
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Screen magnifier. Text is magnified and contrast may be enhanced.
It is often useful for the test user to use their own equipment in an environment that they are familiar with. In general, therefore, we travel to the user’s location to carry out these evaluations.
Why perform usability tests with the visually impaired? Usability testing gives information about how your solution works for blind users and people with other disabilities. These users test your system with the help of their particular special aids.
Why choose us? We have the required knowledge about user-friendliness and accessibility that enables us to design effective usability tests for the visually impaired. We also have access to a number of potential test users.