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Designing Websites for Disabled / Elderly?
dangerz asks: "I'm in a class right now that gives you a client and you must design a site for them for free. My class was split up into a group, and I am the Project Manager / Lead Programmer in the group. Our client is a group for Disabled and Elderly People. Basically, what we need to do is create a site for them to sell their art work. We had a meeting with the board of the organization today where we explained the basics of a website and what we'd need from them to move on. They learned pretty quick, but there are some things they want that we think aren't aesthetically pleasing. Has anyone ever had to do a site where the target audience was elderly or disabled people, and if so, what steps did you take to make sure everything was simple and accessible?"
My grandmother is eighty-six and uses a reguar monitor and keyboard. She doesn't seem to have any problems using a standard monitor and keyboard. If you send her email, you'll get some back and in a pretty short period of time. She spends a lot of time surfing the web for some research she's working on.
And before she goes on her 3-mile walk every morning, she sends my mom email to tell her she was still alive and made it through another night.
Oh, she has had some knee pain problems so she's had one replaced and the other is due soon. The doctor said if all of his patients would walk that far before surgery, the physical therapy would be a lot less painful and much shorter.