Accessibility

Accessibility concerns with making an ICT product usable by users with mental or physical disabilities.

Examples of Inclusive Features

Captions on multimedia - assists deaf users to read video
Keyboard navigation - assists blind users to navigate via a keyboard inputs
Audio narrator (text to speech) - assists blind users by saying the text aloud
Saved Login Credentials - assists users with memory problems to login into member only areas
Font enlarger - assists users with sight difficulties

Question Extract:

Make appropriate annotations to your design to demonstrate your understanding of the use of:

an appropriate (e.g. wireframe) design that shows the layout and structure of your intended design (represent the position of the logo with a labelled box) (5 marks)
the elements and principles of design and the relationship between them (4 marks) ● logical organisation of content (3 marks)
user-generated content (e.g. contact forms, order forms) (2 marks)
‘help’ features and how these will assist the target audience/s (6 marks)
features or tools that will enable the website to be accessed using new technologies. (2 marks)

Acknowledgement: SCSA WACE 2015 AIT Paper. You can access the entire context of the question in the 2015 WACE paper by clicking here (SCSA website)

Audio narrator assists blind users by converting text into speech

Font enlarger - increases size of text to assist users with sight difficulties

Saved Username and Password allows users with memory problems to login into the website