How Do Disabled People Access the Internet?

1) Blind users.....

Internet users who cannot virtue, generally utilize a screen reading software, which reads the content of the webpage a loud in the earphones of user, or in some cases it crawl through the HTML coding and read back the alt and title text associated with anchor tags and images.

Want to try this software, click on this link JAWS screen reader, it will ask you for a download. Once you have downloaded this software , restart your system and click on the image pointing to JAWS Screen Reader(lying on your desktop).

Now open your favorite website using JAWS screen reader and try to get some sense in to how blind people intract with internet in their day to day routine .

2) People with partial sight impairment..

In order to make full use of internet, the people with poor vision may require to enlarge the size of text on the web page.

If you have a website then you can check if it is working efficiently with this group of people (having partial sight problem) by clicking the "view" link in the top bar of your Internet Explorer and then scrolling down to text size which will open up four options:

a) Larger

b) Medium

c) Small

d) Smallest

Remember, this feature is unable to format the text within the graphics, which may pose some problems for this category of people.

3) Colour Blindness

In a recent research, a group of health practitioners cited that " Nearly 30 people in a group of 100 are crept with some sort of color blindness." Some people cannot see red color, some green and others cannot see violet.

Different types of color blindness :

a) Deuteranope (a form of red/green color deficit)

b) Protanope (another form of red/green color deficit)

c) Tritanope (a blue/yellow deficit- very rare)

You can check how internet users suffering from different type of color blindness will see your website on their computers.

With a new visibility checking tool: VISCHECK.

4) Users who do not have mouse/ might be using voice asssitance device like JAWS screen reader.