Mike Cherim created the Accessible Web Designers group on Facebook a few days back and it’s really taken off with 95 members so far—with more than a few “celebrities” in its ranks. Borrowing the name from Mike’s top-ten group on Ma.gnolia treat this as a cordial invitation to join and further spread the word. Oh, [...]
About this time last year Joe Clark launched a micropatronage drive to help pay his way whilst he went about raising funds for his accessibility research project, the Open & Closed Project. About 250 of us sent in donations via PayPal and raised almost $6000 but despite many applications for grants, nothing materialised. You know, [...]
Accessites and the Guild of Accessible Web Designers, of which I’m a member of both, have agreed to co-operate with producing a quarterly “GAWDS Web Accessibility Award”. Accessites will put forward nominations to GAWDS each quarter based on websites that have passed the submissions criteria and then gone on to achieve a “Quality” or higher [...]