1 + 1 Online Radio Website
Project Brief:
Shengbo is a website that Peopeo designed for the visual impaired people and the blinds. The purpose is to allow the visual impaired person can share audios and make friends through this website. Through in-depth research on the special needs, accessibility issues and special requirements from the visual impaired and the blinds, through humanized considerations and design, Peopeo team make it easy for the visually impaired and the blinds to access the website content very easy, so that they can find lights and hopes from the website.
The Challenge:
During the project process, Peopeo team had conquered many challenges, which including the floowings:
1, Equal participation in Internet applications: How to make this site a platform with proper applications which allow the visual impaired people equally participate and be able to involve into the mainstream society?
2, The psychological experience of different users: how to design the site which allow both the visually impaired people and normal people to use this site together?
3, The blind user’s habits: The blind people currently rely on the screen-reading software and shortcuts on kepboard to surf online, their user habits need to be considered. Besides, when designing the layer of the pages, too many layers cannot help them to form a clear picture on the web space, and will be confused on their location on the site;
4, The visually impaired users habits: page font size, color, content and page background color contrast and dynamic effects and other factors will affect the visually impaired users to effectively access the information.
5, The conflict of user habits among different users: different users may have different degree of visual impair and acuity, hence their physical differences and user habits need to be considered and well designed.
6, The site’s usability: rich content, yet simple, logical, easy to operate, are general requirements when designing a site. The special target users has brough special requirements when designing this site. But even though, we donot want users to learn any special languae or logic about this site, it has to be so common and intuitive.
The Solution:
Shengbo has the following five features:
1, The structure is more simple, any complex operations are simplified.
2, Reasonable shortcut key has been provided, to avoids t complicated operation.
3, It allows the users to write a blog with the voice, which gives the visually impaired users more distinctive, personalized experience.
4, It has more voice prompts. Which is convenient for all types of visually impaired users to browse and search for the site.
5, It utilizes the voice control technology, which help the users to operate easily and to give a command.
It has innovative features in the UI interface as following:
1, Multi-channel interface: It has multi-channel user interface, adhering to the “science and technology across the barrier” concept, fully using the Internet and information accessibility technology, providing humanized user interfaces for the visual impaired and for the blinds.
2, One screen operation concept: The interface is simle and only one screen size for each page. The menu and navigation have been placed on the pages at fixed location, which allows the users to quickly switch pages and to access information.
3, The unique presentation of content: The frequently changing features and content have been put in the framed area, which reduce the size of user’s visual focus area, so they do not have to spend too much time on the pages. The title lists are also simplified, easy for the users to locate, and quickly target the information.
4, The enhanced visual information elements: for low vision users, large sized and clear fonts and icons, high contrast, simple icon and text navigation, have been used to allow users to easily identify and understand.
5, Barrier free sidebar: For low vision users, upon their requirements for the content display, barrier free sidebar has been provided at a fixed position on the pages, which allow users to switch the skin color of the site, adjust the fond size, select a different color scheme or use a magnifier on the screen to enlarged the part of area.
Clients & Partners:
One Plus One (Beijing) Disabled Persons’ Cultural Development Center
