Lesson 4Web accessibility for hearing impaired users
- Notion 22 - What are hearing impairments and who do they impact on the web?
- Notion 23 - Accessibility issues hearing impaired users can experience
- Notion 24 - Tools you can use to ensure your content is accessible for hearing impaired users
- Notion 25 - Design tips for ensuring content is accessible for hearing impaired users
- Notion 26 - Examples of design that is inaccessible for hearing impaired users
- Notion 27 - What makes these websites accessible for hearing impaired users?
- Notion 28 - Wrap up: What does hearing impairment mean?
Notion 25
Design tips for ensuring content is accessible for hearing impaired users
Target skills
Gain practical knowledge on creating accessible content
To improve the accessibility of a website for visitors with hearing impairment, start by examining these topics:
- Insert explanatory images.
This will accompany the audio or written instructions, which will benefit deaf users. d/Deaf are more familiar with sign language than the written word.
- Insert sign language instructions and comments
this ensures the maximum accessibility for d/Deaf since it is their first language.
- Insert videos and other media with captions
Make sure they are easy to turn on and off using keyboard commands, not just a mouse. Content should be available in a number of languages and/or as an accompaniment to international sign language.
- Ensure that there is nothing audio-only,
such as beeps, error warnings or audio messages.
- All audio material should have a transcript
This should be clearly available on the same page as the audio file.
- No voice-only controls.
Everything should be operational through keyboard and mouse controls.