From the course: Practical Accessibility for Designers
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Making websites understandable
From the course: Practical Accessibility for Designers
Making websites understandable
- [Narrator] If you can read this, maybe you have a neurotypical brain. Did you know that a neurotypical brain doesn't read every letter in a word or sentence? It predicts what's supposed to be there, and so can cope with small typos and jumbled up letters. What happens if I wrote the sentence correctly, though? It's much less work for anyone to read it. We want to make people work as little as possible to understand the information on our websites, especially information that they need to complete the tasks you want them to. Cognition and people. Our world is neurodiverse, meaning it's made up of people with different kinds of brains. People with typical neurological functioning and development are known as neurotypical. People whose brains process, learn, and or behave differently from what is considered typical are known as neurodivergent. The effort it takes to make sense of a sentence like the one at the start of this…
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