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."

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Making the Web Accessible to People With Disabilities is the Right Thing to Do

For a business, it can also mean added revenue and protection from lawsuits.
11 March 2013

GENEVA (ILO News) – For most of us, surfing the Web has become almost second nature. But for millions of people with disabilities, the Internet remains inhospitable territory.

Making the Web Accessible to People With Disabilities is the Right Thing to Do- Full Article

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard

15 October 2012

Today the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Joint Technical Committee JTC 1, Information Technology of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), announced approval of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as an ISO/IEC International Standard (ISO/IEC 40500:2012).

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard- Full Article

5 Reasons Businesses Should Take Web Accessibility Seriously

Wednesday, August 15, 2012
by Philip J Reed

Too many businesses make the mistake of dismissing web accessibility as irrelevant, but the assumption that accessibility issues concern only a small segment of would-be customers is a potentially profit-damaging misstep.

5 Reasons Businesses Should Take Web Accessibility Seriously- Full Article

The Benefits of User Testing with Disabled Users

Jul 06 2012
by Richard

Disabled users are users.

This might seem like a straightforward or even a trite statement, but its a point worth making since Usability (or UX – User Experience) is a growing field which has the fantastic goal (and one very close to my heart) of making websites, or pretty much you interact with, less annoying, more intuitive and generally just work better. Usability, however, is rarely seen by its experts as being linked to the accessibility concerns of disabled users.

The Benefits of User Testing with Disabled Users- Full Article

Screen Reader User Survey #4 Results

In May 2012, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. We received 1782 valid responses to this survey. This was a follow-up survey to the original WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey of January 2009 and the follow-up surveys from October 2009 and December 2010.

Writing Good Link Text

Originally written 28th November 2011 by Léonie Watson

Links are like sign posts. They should tell you what you’ll find when you follow them. Writing good link text isn’t difficult, but there are a few things to be aware of when you do.

Writing Good Link Text- Full Article

Thoughts on a Society of Accessibility Professionals

Léonie Watson writes from her perspective as director of accessibility at Nomensa (a UK-based Web design and development

firm)
April 2012

Léonie Watson

There is a strong esprit de corps amongst the people who work in accessibility. It’s founded on the belief that the digital

world should be more inclusive, and it’s tempered by the shared experiences of championing that belief.

Thoughts on a Society of Accessibility Professionals- Full Article

Screen Reader User Survey

The following survey is a follow-up to the original WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey, and follow-up surveys in September 2009 and December 2010. This survey is primarily intended to collect new information and track updates/trends from previous surveys. By completing this survey you will help inform development choices for those creating accessible web content and web standards. All screen reader users, even those who use screen readers only for evaluation and testing, are invited to participate.

The survey will remain open through May 25, 2012.

Web Accessibility Myths – A Call for Accessibility Advocates to be More Business-Minded

By Professor Jonathan Hassell

As nothing stays still on the web, and many of these blogs are rather old (other than Ian Pouncey’s great blog earlier this year), it’s important that our understanding of accessibility myths moves on too…

Web Accessibility Myths – A Call for Accessibility Advocates to be More Business-Minded- Full Article

Can Assistive Technology Make a Website Accessible?

By karlgroves On April 19, 2012

What is Assistive Technology?

Having a product that doesn’t do much is one thing. Claiming that it can do things that it can’t is something different altogether. These things are like the penis enlargement pills of accessibility. Some customers are so desperate and ignorant that they are almost eager to be duped.

Can Assistive Technology Make a Website Accessible?- Full Article

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