Travel Hands Blog

Travel Hands is a service designed to ease the outdoor commute of VIP (Visually Impaired People) by pairing them with sighted & verified volunteers to walk together to similar destinations ensuring a safe, convenient, and inexpensive travel experience.

Creating and designing websites which meet accessibility guidelines is not a piece of cake. Before you start designing a new website, it’s essential to find out what the most important criteria are to bear in mind during the creation process in order to avoid wasting time or maybe even money to improve it in the future. 

Whilst there are arguments both for and against the COVID-19 vaccination. Discussion has arisen on whether VIP should be on the government's priority list for receiving the vaccine.

This blog is to make us realise where we stand on accessibility measures of mobile apps in order to undertake necessary improvements. I rate popular phone apps on their accessibility index. Five aspects are tested and a score out of 5 is given to each app.

But how much of these laws have protected the disabled and provided them equality? A recent study by ‘Papworth Trust’ has published facts and stats which show us that the laws have disgracefully let down our disabled community.

You want to ensure all customers can interact with your site, so it is important to build it as accessible to those with disabilities. You can accomplish this by following the four principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

The process of making a product is known to distort the objective truth from the maker, which is true for designing as well. The infatuation of your design can cloud your judgment of the outcome easily. So you must TEST, TEST and TEST your product/website/solution. 

VIP World platform assisted Travel Hands to research with a diverse pool of people with disabilities. Travel Hands could research with a partially sighted active traveller in London and test their website with a completely blind advanced techie.

There are many ways that accessibility has a positive impact on SEO. An easy example is when you optimise a website for quick loading times, not only are you directly benefiting SEO criteria, but you are also making your website accessible to users from areas with poor service. 

Being visually impaired is difficult and being outside of the societal ‘norms’ for gender is difficult, and when these two intersect, they multiply against each other. One issue makes the other even harder.