Zoom layouts
First of all you might like to read this article in a Zoom layout, switch styles right on the "Choose style panel" at the left side.
Low vision users, which are a lot more than blind users, need special needs so that they can read and navigate a web site, CSS can provide all these needs.
Aries Arditi ,PhD has been studying web accessibility for 15 years, he come up with "Low vision wish list" which is:
- Make it large enough but not too large.
- Enhance the contrast.
- Enhance the colour contrast.
- Present text all on one line.
- Increase spacing between letters.
- Let me choose my font.
- Let me control my reading speed.
- Let me see where what I’m reading fits into the big picture.
- Grant [the foregoing wishes] for any Web site.
Joe Clark has revealed a new technique in @media 2005 that provide most of this wish list, it is Zoom layout a single column layout with the navigation simplified and placed at the top, fonts become bigger but not too big, contrast enhanced between Background and text.
July 21, 2005, 3:54 PM | Accessibility , CSS , Web standards