Making digital accessible for an older audience

Why do you need to consider the needs of older people when creating websites and mobile apps?

In this webinar, from September 2020, our team discuss the often overlooked value of the silver pound, how the pandemic has made older people a key new audience for digital products, the sorts of access barriers they face from a combination of lack of skills or capabilities, and what older people really want from digital.

Through personal stories and practical examples, the team share practical tips on how developers, designers, content authors can make older people’s lives easier by taking their digital access needs into account.

You can also find these tips summarised in a poster.

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Get our Designing for Older People Poster

Older users make up 20% of the population. So not considering their needs significantly reduces your website or app’s potential audience.

Our poster summarises 5 key considerations when designing products to be inclusive for older people who may have multiple minor impairments that affect their sight, hearing, touch, understanding, and memory.

Many may not have, know about, or want to use assistive tech to help them.

Download our poster as a handy aide memoire.

 

 

Download our Older People Poster

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