Digital News Accessibility

The design and implementation of digital news platforms—including websites, mobile applications, news aggregators, and audio-based services—so that they can be effectively used by people with disabilities, particularly blind and visually impaired users who rely on screen readers. Key barriers include dynamic advertisements that displace screen reader focus, cluttered and unintuitive visual layouts, unlabelled buttons, inaccessible multimedia content lacking alt text or audio descriptions, paywalls indiscernible to screen readers, local language content in non-Unicode fonts, and e-newspapers distributed as scanned image PDFs. Accessible news design requires attention to both navigational structure and content format.