Is Your Website Accessible?

"Accessible" means usable to a wide range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning difficulties, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also make your Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including older users. It will also enable people to access Web content using many different devices - including a wide variety of assistive technologies."

If you're not sure email us at info@badeyes.com, we'll do a quick Audit and let you know.

Recommended Reading

Badeyes Design & Consulting Partners with eSSENTIAL Accessibility™

By Geof Collis
Badeyes Design & Consulting
February 2, 2010

To further its commitment to web accessibility, Badeyes Design and Consulting has partnered with eSSENTIAL Accessibility™ in order to add another layer of accessibility to sites it designs.

With the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) now in force it makes even more sense to make websites as accessible as possible and eSSENTIAL Accessibility™ helps us do just that.

Badeyes Design & Consulting Partners with eSSENTIAL Accessibility™- Full Article

Web Accessibility Myths

Posted: January 23rd, 2010
By Ian Pouncey

There is a lot of good advice for the discerning web developer to find on the web on how to make a website accessible, unfortunately there is also plenty
of bad or outdated advice out there as well. Here are a few of the myths of accessibility that you may hear.

Web Accessibility Myths- Full Article

Tips for Webmasters: Improve Your Websites’ Accessibility

By Geof Collis
Badeyes Design & Consulting
January 16, 2010

In anticipation of the upcoming Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) Information and Communications Standard, I have put together some tips for Webmasters on how to make your website accessible.

Tips for Webmasters: Improve Your Websites’ Accessibility- Full Article

Web Accessibility no Longer an Afterthought

by Tom Krazit

Yahoo’s Victor Tsaran, blind since the age of five, is responsible for making sure Yahoo developers design Web pages with accessibility in mind.

Yahoo’s Victor Tsaran knows how much time Web designers spend agonizing over color and font-width choices when laying out an application. So when he started Yahoo’s accessibility push two years ago, he had a tough time arousing sympathy for engineers grousing about how much extra time was needed to create accessibility features.

Web Accessibility no Longer an Afterthought- Full Article

Mapping Section 508 1194.22 to WCAG 2.0 Level A

This document maps Section 508 Standards for Electronic and Information Technology, Subpart B – Technical Standards, Section 1194.22 (Web Criteria) into the Success Criteria and Sufficient Techniques for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The basic factor that links the two standards is user need. The needs identified by the Section 508 Criteria must be satisfied by all web content or web technologies in order to satisfy Section 508. The threshold of satisfaction will be the equally effective access test required by Section 504, the nondiscrimination section of the Federal Rehabilitation Act (1973). Equally effective access to a document is access that enables equal timeliness and equal quality in a perceptual and operational mode that meets the user’s needs. Any lower threshold requires additional accommodation for the hosting organization.

Discover New Ways of Thinking About Accessibility

on Wednesday, 9 December 2009
by Shawn Henry

As an employee of the W3C Web standards organization, you might think that I would say the most important thing to start with when addressing web accessibility is standards. I don’t. I say the first step is learning how people with disabilities use the web. You might be surprised to learn that is the W3C’s advice. We’ve now got it more clearly in writing, in the new document published today by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI):