This article pretty much sums up my fears for the Wild Cat project. Obviously, universal accessibility is very important for our web design. However, I’m still confused about how to make my website more accessible other than just using ems and percentages for size rather than pixels, and using alt tags for photos.
I liked how the article started with the definition of affordance, especially the example of how a person in a wheel chair sees stairs and intuitively knows to climb those stairs, but they physically can’t.
Universal accessibility is a problem for web designers but is becoming more of the norm. It’s important for web designers to understand its importance even if they “have no idea how a screen-reader works.”