On my WCAG 2.1. training course, I outline why designing a flexible website is the key to accessible website design – by flexible I mean designing your site so that visitors can change it to suit their own needs.
It’s a good approach for you because you don’t need to design a million different websites, e.g. one with big text for people with a visual impairment, another for people who are colour blind and yet another for people with motor impairments. You just need to design one website; one that can flex to accommodate a million different needs.
I said that you should aim to, ‘divorce content from presentation’.…
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Working with non-profits, charities, voluntary and public sector organisations and social enterprises for over 20 years. Jim set up one of the worlds first website accessibility web agencies in the mid 1990s.