Surfing without barriers: Tips for a barrier-free web page

How the Visually Impaired See Web Pages

Maren Franzkowiak

Everyone uses the Internet daily, whether as a resource for research, means of communication or service-portal. How natural it is for us to look up train connections, or the latest movie, or to chat with people all around the world through e-mail or in online-forums. But what should visually impaired or blind people do? How should they navigate through the jungle of data without using a mouse or keyboard? How can they move around in the Internet without stumbling across web pages that are difficult to access, or even totally inaccessible to them.