As part of our advocacy, #OneAccessibility, we will share information about differently able and profile one location with accessible trails. Look out every week for this enlightening post.
Most of the websites are developed and designed, primarily, by considering the use of non-disabled people. Web designers and developers do not bother to think that this site can also be used by any disabled person. The websites that are not designed and developed with accessible features, cannot be used frequently by any disabled person. To increase awareness about accessible websites, the Oneaccessibility team is observing this November for Web Accessibility.
What is Web Accessibility:
Accessibility of a website means that it is designed and developed in a way that people with disabilities can use it comfortably, without facing any obstacle of using it. An Accessible Website is useful and beneficial to both disabled and non-disabled people. Some normal people may face an accidental and temporary disability, in that case, accessible websites will be helpful for them to use normally.
Accessibility features in Bangladesh National Website
Some common accessible features of a website:
The common accessible features of a website are as below. They may change as per the targeted audience.
- Resizing Text
- Monochrome
- Invert Colors
- Big Cursor
- Highlight Links
- Headings
- Reading Guide and
- Keyboard Shortcut
What is Resizing Text?
Resizing Text means changing the size of fonts, space between lines, and other text-related accessibility features available in a website. Sometimes, visually impaired people may need to make the web content bigger to read comfortably. On the other hand, some PwD may need to change the other aspects e.g., fonts, space between lines, and other things of a web content they are surfing. But, if a website is designed without accessibility features, text may become unreadable to a PwD., texts, columns or rows may overlap, the distance between lines may missing, and may have other text-related problems. All the above-mentioned problems are solved with the accessibility web feature: Resizing Text.
Text Resizing option is marked inside the red box.
What a web designer or developer should take care of resizing text?
While adding the text related accessibility features, a web developer and designer should keep the below points in mind:
- All texts must have the capability of getting larger.
- No text will disappear after resizing.
- No text gets cut off.
- No content, such as texts, image, buttons, lines, etc., get overlapped.
- All input contents, such as forms, fields, etc. must be visible and usable after resizing.
How to resize the text on a website?
At present most of the updated browsers e.g., Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Edge/Internet Explorer, Safari allow the user to change the texts in various ways. The most common ways for changing texts are as below:
- You can resize texts and other related features from the Settings
- You can resize text and other related features with the text-only zoom option.
- By zooming a page that also zooms images, buttons, etc.
How to resize text in Google Chrome web browser?
You can resize the text in the Google Chrome browser very easily by following the below steps and images:
- Go to the Three Dots at the right top corner and click.
- Go to the Settings and click
- Go to the Appearance from the left-hand list
- Go to the Font Size option to resize the font as per your requirement (See below image). From this option, you can make the font bigger or smaller.
- You can also resize the text’ font size from the Customize Fonts (See below image). Here you just need to use the sliders to resize the font size.
- Finally, you can Zoom the full page by Page Zoom option. This option will allow you to zoom your page from 25% to 500%.
You can watch this video for the Google Chrome browser to get a better idea about how to resize text in it.
And you can also look at “how to resize text” videos for Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Safari web browsers.
If you have a question, suggestion, or contribution, feel free to comment below. You can read last week’s article, Blind Awareness, here and check the list of our other articles under "Accessibility Uncovered"
