Website Redesign and Accessibility Case Study
Kunstatelier Omanut is a Jewish art studio and day center in Berlin supporting people with intellectual disabilities and mental health conditions. I redesigned its outdated website from the ground up, with a strong focus on accessibility and inclusion, and built the entire site myself using Jimdo, a no-code platform with limited customisation options, while considering German data protection requirements.
The old website hid a warm, colourful studio behind a flat blue template from another decade: 16 undifferentiated menu items, a Facebook-blue button, no real logo and no hierarchy. For the people it serves (participants with intellectual disabilities or mental illness, their families, funders and staff), it was hard to navigate and never made clear what to do next.
A new site that is calm to read, accessible by default and respectful of visitors' privacy, built entirely inside Jimdo's limits.
The old site buried everything in a flat menu of 17 items. I grouped its 37 pages with a card sort and cut the menu to 5 clear items, moving Members Only and the shop into a small strip above. Contact details now sit together in one card instead of loose lines of text.
Visitors could not see what the studio actually makes. The Galerien page now leads with large photos in a card grid: one short text and one button per area, each leading to its own gallery. A yellow circle opens behind the photo on hover, and the galleries are photo strips that scroll sideways.
The old site had no events page, so visitors could not tell what was on. Veranstaltungen now puts the current exhibition first, with the poster, the date and a button that adds it to the visitor's calendar, followed by regular activities and past exhibitions.
