Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Using Style Sheets to Enhance Accessibility for People with Low Vision or Cognitive Disabilities

In this chapter, we use CSS to address some of the problems that people with cognitive disabilities or low vision might encounter when using the AIR judging form. Before we discuss the design, however, let’s take a look at the terms low vision and cognitive disabilities.

Low Vision

The term low vision covers a very broad range of conditions. The number of people who have partial or limited vision far exceeds the number of people who have no useful vision at all. There is a substantially higher incidence of low vision among people over 50 than in the general population, resulting from such conditions as macular degeneration, glaucoma, and diabetic ...