Mobile Devices

Designing for mobile devices is a very complicated issue. First of all there has not been any standards set for mobile devices. Which the W3 is in the process of creating their will many problems until they do have them set in place.

The next problem you will run into is how do you test your site. They are working on some solutions to this problem such as Mozilla org is trying to develop a mini mozilla which would be a browser for small devices. Opera does have the ability to render its browser for the small handheld devices. You can also download emulators to show how it would look on a handheld device such as for: smart phone, pocket pc and other handheld devices.

Designing for mobile devices you need to know what is the standard size of the screen in order to design for the mobile devices.

• 128 x 160 pixels
• 176 x 220 pixels
• 240 x 320 pixels
• 320 x 480 pixels

That small of area would be very difficult to design web pages for. In web design it is a fast paced and ever changing area and I am excited to see where it is going from here. Keeping up with the speed of technology is exciting and I am looking forward to see how fast technology is going to change.

Web Accessibility

When I did my research on accessiblity I found that web developers and designers must keep in mind that they need to have a site that is understandable easy to navigate for users. Web developers also need to have their site accessible to people who have disabilites and people who do not have disabilities.
Also they need to take into consideration the color that they use on the site they need to have enough contrast. There are many people who have sight problems and who need to have colors that provide enough of hue difference.
Developers have not always taken into consideration people who have disabilities. I think that is being short sided on the developers part. I think that we need to use W3 schools for information to help us when we are developing web sites. Using only flash is creating problems for the screen readers. One thing developers could do is invite someone who has disability to visit the site and give you feedback on the site.