Web Site Accessibility Blog

A partnership between the BBC and AbilityNet, a computing and disability charity, created My Web, My Way. The site offers users many ways to make the web more accessible by using their current PC or Mac and multiple operating systems. By listing shortcuts, systems settings, browser settings and helpful information, users are able to increase their accessibility by simply using the features available in most operating systems.

Users start by selecting their Operating system, and then choices based on the OS are presented in a very understandable manner. Users choosing the Windows OS, are then presented with choices of;

• Help seeing websites
• Help hearing websites
• Help reading websites
• Help with keyboard and mouse
• Help with web forms

Each selection allows the user to get specific information on managing each aspect of increasing text size, enabling speech, changing colors and even creating customized style sheets. Each specific section links out to relevant supporting resources.

Any user who wants to increase their enjoyment and interaction with the web should take full advantage of this resource. The BBC and AbilityNet have done a superb job of developing this site, which is very easy to use and understand. The descriptions are clear and the icons are relevant and helpful, the content is written clearly and users should be able to easily update their computers to enable better access to web resources.