[Nfb-krafters-korner] Update on my Website

[Amanda Matheny]

Lol that's late for all those ideas but they are great ones. I know
for me when I do read print which is rare nowadays, Arial is my font
of choice. It's very easy to use. However, the default font on most
websites is pretty easily readable too, so I usually just leave it
alone. If you do want to change it though, Arial is a good choice.
Whatever you do, absolutely never, ever, ever use a handwriting font.
None of those are great for low vision users.

On 4/19/14, Cathy <flowersandherbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ladies,
> Lillie and Amanda you were discussing how to make a website look nice
> without sacrificing usability
> for the blind. I can only speak as a screen reader user, but I have looked
> around at a number of
> sites and asked my jaws to tell me what the font attributes and heading
> styles are being used on a
> variety of sites. What I have noted is that sites use different formatting
> such as centering,
> underlining, bolding for their heading levels. Different sites use various
> fonts such as Arial or
> times new roman etc. on their sites, but normally the font chosen is the
> same throughout.
> . I am sure that these things help to make the site more interesting as well
> as making it easier to
> navigate with these features. I know that when I wrote my newsletters for my
> garden club, these
> things were all important along with the color that has already been
> mentioned. Of course pictures
> are good, but so is clipart. I usually had someone put some of that in to my
> newsletters as well. I
> would guess that most sites have clipart, but I cannot recognize it with
> jaws.
> I have been told that certain fonts are easier for folks to read than are
> others. Certain colors
> are easier on the eyes than others too.  Of course a larger font may be
> helpful to those with
> limited vision. The idea of high contrast colors sounds good as you have
> mentioned.
>
>
> Hope this gives you more ideas.
> Just throwing out ideas that come to mind at one in the morning.
> <sleepy smile>
>
> Cathy F
>
>
>
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