Entries in the Accessibility category:
WCAG 2 - a backward step for accessibility?
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
My latest article for Irish web consultants iQ Content explores the vexed question of the newly-published update to the accessibility standards for websites:
As people who work with accessibility and websites, we’re used to the arcane world of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), but the new guidelines are going to change things a lot, and maybe not for the better.
Published in 1999 by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) committee of the W3C, version 1.0 outlines three priority levels of accessibility attainable by websites, from the basic level one (A) to the practically unobtainable level 3 (AAA).
The WAI have been working for years in updating the guidelines. This is a good thing, as the 1.0 requirements are confusing and outdated – having not kept up with recent best practice in the field.
Read the full article on the iQ Content site.
Introduction to Accessibility
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Next Thursday, May 12th, I’ll be addressing a meeting of NMIPA (New Mexico Internet Professional’s Association) on the subject of accessibility.
Together with Virginia DeBolt, author of ‘Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn’, I’ll outline the case for creating inclusive websites (and the benefits of doing so), and describes the basic steps you can take to improve the accessibility of your sites.
Dining in the dark and web accessibility
Thursday, March 10, 2005
NPR’s Morning Edition today had a story about the Blind Cow restaurant in Zurich, where diners eat in complete darkness, served by blind and partially-sighted staff.
This set me thinking about web accessibility (because that’s the sort of person I am).
One of the aims of the restaurant is to give people an insight into life without sight - we try to do a similar thing when doing web accessibility training.