Ways to improve user experience of visual impaired groups by accessible design in website-an example study on three educational websites

Abstract

With the popularization of the concept of equality, people begin to think more about how to let the disabled keep pace with normal people. For example, they should have the same right and access to the same public resources. The Internet, as a useful tool, helping people get rich information, and becomes more and more widely applied. Therefore, the screen reader is designed to help the special groups to receive information on the websites. However, there are still lots of websites that the disabled can't get access to, feeling pain with it, mainly because the website designers do not take accessibility into account while building. In this study, by finding the habit which visually impaired people like to surf the internet, what the massive websites' layouts are like, where the parts are that lead to the confusion the visually impaired people have, then building up an example website, which is for visually impaired students to upload their assignments, to show what an accessible website should be like, finally determining the importance of accessibility for a good website design.