Website Accessibility Design

Ensuring that anyone, no matter what their abilities or disabilities are, can access your website is vitally important, or you could lose part of your audience.  It isn't even that hard to check as there are many websites available that can assist you, such as https://colorfilter.wickline.org which lets you check how people with different forms of colour-blindness will see your website, which I used to ensure there were no issues with my website colours.

You can add alternative text that will appear as photo descriptors if pictures are important on your site, so that people with screen readers can fully participate.

You can also check how it will look in different browsers.  I found that my website worked fine in Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer.  As most people don’t have access to a wide range of web browsers, they can use one of many websites to check how it appears.  This is one that I tried: https://browsershots.org. 

It's also simple to check how your website will appear at different screen resolutions on sites such as https://quirktools.com, which I tested this website on.  People may have different resolutions depending on the size of their screen, sight problems or simple preference.  Websites will look very different on mobile devices which vary from small smartphones to large iPads.  If your website doesn’t load properly or just looks terrible on some devices, this may drive away your audience, making the time and money you and/or your employer spent designing and creating your site a waste.