A New Guideline | Helping Web Developers Improve Accessibility for Blind Users

Minhwan

This project aims to create a guideline for web developers' future use to improve blind users' web navigation efficiency.

As sighted people use the web that is a design based on their user experience, the speed of their usage is increased. In addition, visual elements in the web are stored in the user's memory to help them quickly understand the newly updated design. However, what about blind people? The way they can increase the speed of web usage is to memorize the number of shortcuts or their behavior pattern. This is inefficient, and slows the blind user down. Also, this method does not contribute to their new web experience. In this respect, if the web user experience continues to be developed from the perspective of sighted users with blind users solely relying on the Screen Reader experience, the difference — the contrast — in their overall web experience will continue to grow.

This video introduces how blind web users currently use the web and the need for a new sound cue that their web experience can contribute to the next web experience. And the scenario to shows web developers discovering a new accessibility guideline and applying it in their work is shared.


About
Minhwan Lee

A designer who is passionate about visual and product design based on human-centered experience design with a background in fine art.
Minhwan Lee

A designer who is passionate about visual and product design based on human-centered experience design with a background in fine art.
Thesis Faculty
Harpreet Sareen, Loretta Wolozin
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