Accessibility

Finally designers and developers have what they want: a standards-based, highly accessible and professional ecommerce solution that has fewer limitations than anything we have seen so far.

A dissertation evaluating the awareness of web accessibiility amongst UK small businesses.

People still delivering nested table layout, spacer gifs or ignoring accessibility can no longer call themselves web professionals.

In the spirit of cooperation I publically invite SiteMorse to get in touch and to work with the ATF with the aim of providing developers and their clients more accessible solutions.

The Web Standards Project announces the WaSP Accessibility Task Force.

Positive steps which governments could take to promote a more rapid move towards an accessible web.

I’ll try to explain my personal opinion as to why I believe that there should not be laws governing web accessibility and that such laws hinder the cause of wider web accessibility rather than help it.

Here are a few tools which form part of the base-level accessibility testing routine at Stuff and Nonsense.

I’ve been meaning to write about my current thoughts on accessibility for a while now and an email I received on the subject spurred me on.

Descriptive ‘alternative’ content to images is vital for accessibility. I have developed my ideas on ‘accessibility footnotes’.

I’ve become interested in the subject of accessible, ‘alternative’ content for complex graphics and images. Looking at browser support and usability issues in the W3C’s recommendations, I have come up with two solutions of my own.

A discussion at Accessify got me thinking about the usefulness of compliance badges or icons. What purpose do they serve the public who have little knowledge or interest in accessibility or code validity? And how can we better use these badges to help promote awareness of standards and accessibility?