The ultimate task of every designer is not only to satisfy his inspiration on a design, but to serve his client’s needs and purposes. For a web design, the designer has to keep in mind the site’s cost efficiency and how attractive it would be with the site’s target audience. Every innovative idea which a web designer can come up with, which is cost efficient and would make the audience stay a little longer on the site, is useful.

Thus a web designer must also keep in mind that all kinds of audience might want to the use the site. This includes people with disabilities. To cater to this section of the audience, the designer must acquaint himself with the specific requirements for a disability-friendly site. Given the increasing social importance of the Web around the world, it is also important that web sites and its pages can be used by people with various kinds of disabilities. They must also be catered to.

There can be a variety of scenarios where a person with a disability might visit your site.

There might be people with colour blindness who need to shop online. As is most common with such sites, colour contrasts are used to distinguish between the price ranges of different objects on sale. Therefore for a person with colour blindness who cannot distinguish between green and red, different shades of red will hardly help him. They will all look brown to him, and the site will remain non-usable to him. On the other hand, a site which marks each object up for sale with a distinguishable colour contrast will be more useful to him. Also, the different items such as clothes for sale and so on, if are displayed along with their colour (in name), will also help such a handicapped person to a great extent.

Students with various disabilities must also be served. A student who wishes to gain information online and is deaf, but encounters the perfect site only to find that it is an audiovisual tutorial, will be sadly disappointed. Thus a web designer must keep in mind such students with similar disabilities while designing his page. Therefore, an option for reading the tutorials or other information must also be provided for.

Students or other people with blindness might also wish to access information on the internet. For them, other arrangements must also be catered to. There are opportunities for providing screen readers to interpret what is being displayed on the screen currently, and this can be used to generate a distinguishable screen output or a Braille output, according to the kind of machine the user is using.

Therefore along with great design ideas and a comprehensive use of attraction techniques, a designer must also keep in mind that section of the audience with such disabilities and many other kinds. The better a site serves its audience, the more popular it will be. A more user friendly site will win over those that are narrowed down in their audience. Because of this reason, it is most advisable to stick to a simple and clear design for the easy use of all kinds of users. Prominent signs and easy navigation are always a big hit.