Designing Accessible Applications
Visual Studio .NET 2003
Your customer base probably includes many people with disabilities, whether you are aware of it or not. According to government figures, one person in five has some functional limitation, and eight percent of all users on the Web have disabilities. In the United States alone there are more than 30 million people with disabilities who can be affected by the design of computer software, and worldwide the number is much higher. Many countries/regions, including the United States, have laws that mandate accessibility at some level.
In This Section
- Basic Principles of Accessible Design
- The five basic principles of accessible application design
- Implementing Accessibility
- Deciding what accessibility features to implement
- Accessibility Design Guidelines for Software
- Guidelines for designing accessible software
- Accessibility Design Guidelines for the Web
- Guidelines for designing accessible Web sites
- Active Accessibility
- An introduction to Microsoft Active Accessibility technology
Related Sections
- Walkthrough: Creating an Accessible Web Application
- Describes how to create an ASP.NET Web application that is optimized for different accessibility issues
- Walkthrough: Creating an Accessible Windows Application
- Describes how to create a Windows application that is optimized for different accessibility issues
