Web Accessibilty Pratical

Today’s Web Accessibility Practical gives us a chance to assess a particular website's practical accessibility using a variety of tools. The first tool we used was Lynx which is a text only browser. This is mainly used by blind people. As such it does not show any images and instead shows the alternative text (alt text) that the web developer has given to the image. One of the main problems with this method was that it was very difficult to understand some parts of the website such as the lottery results.



Using the tab key to select the lottery numbers proved to be an impossible task! There was no order when moving between numbers. It was very frustrating and I eventually gave up.



When I checked the contrast of the web site i found that it was actually quite good and did pass some tests. I used the AIS toolbar to check the contrast and some parts some scored quite highly and some parts even passed the test.





Finally, when changing the text size on the Playmonday site there was very little change as the majority of the site is made up of flash applications and images. Also the background and text colour would not change when I changed the internet settings. This would be bad for people with colour blindness or other visually impaired disabilities.