LO2: Disability Discrimination Act

It is important that, if possible, a website meets disability guidelines so that someone with a disability (such as blindness or deafness) is able to use and understand the site in a similar way to someone without disabilities.

Here are the guidelines that a website creator should endeavour to adhere to, in a basic sense:

• Provide text alternatives for any non-text content in the site, such as images and videos.
• Make sure the content on your site can be presented in simpler ways, if needed, without losing structure.
• Make the site easy to read and understand - clear foreground and background, and clear text.
• Everything on the site should be able to be done on a keyboard.
• Do not add content to the site that could cause seizures (e.g. flashing lights).
• Pages of the website should appear and operate in a predictable way - nothing unexpected.

These guidelines each fall into one of four "principles" - perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.