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 26
Examples of design that is inaccessible for hearing impaired users
Target skills
Using a design example from the web, become adept at identifying poor web accessibility practices for users with hearing impairments.
Look at the following multimedia and define why the website is not accessible for peolpe with hearing impairment.
Ask yourself:
- Is it possible to change language?
- is the content of the video easy to understand without audio?
- is the structure of the website simple?
- is it possible to have subtitles or captures?
- are there animations?
- is there a plain text to read?
- can you see the people speaking?
This are all aspects that you should consider when creating your website and your multimedia content