For this Personal Research Project, I was particularly interested in the area of web design and my ideas were focused on how web sites are design today for the disabled. Are they accessible for the disabled? I plan to investigate whether the disabled today are still being affected by lack of accessibility to the web and should rules be put in place that is applicable to all Websites? I will choose a well known website and research into detail what are the accessibility barriers that are preventing disabled people from using the website. I have chosen to research upon this topic as many web designers are forgetting to follow the guidelines of designing a simple standard Web Accessibility Web site.
My research question: Are the disabled being affected by the lack of accessibility to the web and should rules be put in place that is applicable to all Websites.
The first artefact that I will produce is a bad example of a non accessible website and a good example of a website. I will have this evaluated by a user or use an analysing web accessibility tool to check the two websites to see if it is accessible or not.
