Visual Impairment | Digital Accessibility: How We Can Help

Vision problems can range very widely, from to and . In most cases, people with these conditions can customize how digital content is displayed on their screens.

For example, they can:

or the font size.
or the screen size.
content color

Content will be easier to customize if the website’s designers followed best practices for making the site accessible.

Valid example

This text is fully legible even when the font size is increased.

Invalid example

In contrast, this text quickly becomes unreadable if the font size is increased or the screen size is reduced.

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The ability to change text formatting not only helps the visually impaired, but also people with dyslexia or even just eyestrain. To make documents more readable for everyone, use colors that are easy to tell apart. You don’t have to change everything to black; the text will be easier to read just by making this blue a little darker.

Did You Know?

ViaOpta Simulator is an app for smartphones and tablets that will help you understand the problems faced by the visually impaired every day. The app uses your device’s camera to show how the world around you appears to those with various vision problems.