Earlier today I found myself writing visual design requirements for a new website design that must have a very high standard of web accessibility. As it won't be me working on the visuals — and by that I mean the Photoshop / Fireworks stage — I felt the need to be very explicit and turned to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 to help.
The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers between disabled users and the social web as much as giving ethical hackers real world issues to solve. We talked about improving the accessibility of the web for a long time - let's not wait, let's make it happen.
The first Scripting Enabled conference took place [...]
Today, Joe Clark is saying "Captioning Sucks!" with a new website.
Why does it suck?
There's not enough of it.
Your complaints are ignored (if you can even manage to file a complaint).
Captions are hard to read, mostly because of lousy fonts.
Deaf people settle for less than 100% captioning.
Broadcasters use the wrong kind of captioning (like scrollup or real-time captioning).
So-called regulators let broadcasters get away [...]
Mike Cherim has finally revealed the website he's been working on as an exemplary implementation site conforming to WCAG 2.0 to be featured by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — The Law Office of Lainey Feingold. Of particular note is the Accessibility Conformance Statement that gives some insight into the different approach taken by WCAG 2.0 [...]
