A Design Study of Accessible Web Menus

10.29465/IJDMD.201906_11(1).0001

Nien-Tsan Wang；Cheng-Da Ji

Availability ； Human-Computer Interaction ； Menu ； Visual Aid ； Web Accessibility

國際數位媒體設計學刊

11卷1期（2019 / 06 / 01）

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英文

To meet the needs of society for allowing disadvantaged people to have better access to the internet, the Taiwanese Government has been actively promoting web accessibility since 2002. However after years of trial, they are still unable to achieve the expected progress. Menus are the main media type that users interact with a website and also where the users receive most of the information. Therefore, it is essential to focus on the importance of Web Menu Accessibility. This research aims to focus on Web Menu Accessibility. We first established the most common menu design from case studies, then applied it to the five different templates of web accessibility sites provided by Taiwan Foundation for the Blind. Results show that Drop-down menu, Fixed menu, and Synchronized menu should be the types of menu most appropriate to be utilized in web accessibility sites. The availability of these menus is also a major factor to be considered for web accessibility.

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