Designing a Website for Visually Challenged Persons

Abstract

In recent times it has become necessary for any business to have an online platform to remain relevant and competitive. Because of this necessity, many businesses including small enterprises now operate an e-commerce web store to increase sales and attract new customers. Moreover, entrepreneurs don't need to stress over finding a spot to raise their stores and clients can have unhindered access to a wide scope of items whenever they need and at anyplace on the planet. The online stores or ecommerce websites are very useful to the people who have difficulty in accessing the outside world. While these websites are useful for other physically challenged people, most of the websites are not designed to be usable by visually impaired, partially blind or even color-blind people. The different types of blindness are surveyed in this paper and the paper proposes a framework that uses various techniques to aid the visually challenged, partially impaired person or color-blind people. An online food ordering website is developed using the framework and is tested by making the website available for use for visually blind, partially blind and color blind. The test results show that the framework had increased the usability of the website by them.