Heuristics for Sites for Older Adults
12th August 2005
The profile of accessibility barriers for older users is getting raised at the moment, with revisions to W3C WAI documents to mention aging specifically, and also work such as OlderWiserWired. It’s hardly rocket science, but it’s about time design was approached from a more general ‘accessibility’ point of view, challenging the depressingly popular misconception that accessibility is only an issue for blind users.