Web Publishing Information Text Color and Size Color can help or hurt your web page no matter who the user is. Users with disabilities such as colorblindness can have a very difficult time distinguishing between two colors of the same lightness. For instruction on using colors for the visually impaired, see Web Publishing and Color Vision . Simple things can be done to your text in order for the vision impaired to read your web page without struggle. For instruction on using text formatting for the visually impaired, see Text and Paragraph Formatting .
Links Links are a great way to help the user navigate through a website.
For a disabled user using a screen reader, links must be implemented correctly to insure proper usability. For instruction on how to create links that are user-friendly for the visually impaired, see Target Links , Creating Target Links , and Linking to Internet Resources . Because images are something we tend to look at, you might think users with visual disabilities cannot use images like we can. Fortunately, with the technology we have today, users with disabilities are able to know what the images are if, and only if, these images have specified alternative text. Using alternate text with your images can makes a great difference to those with visual disabilities.