Category Archives: Accessibility

Posts relating to accessibility issues

How useful are accessibility evaluation tools?

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Accessibility has as much to do with usability than being purely technically correct. The site needs to have clear navigation, the ability to skip content areas, offer alternative layouts and be written in an easily understood style by the anticipated audience. Can an expensive evaluation tool be justified and are site-wide checks using such a tool actually required (rather than just for a “feel good” factor of control over the situation) post-production?

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Pushing the Accessibility Continuum Along

Interesting times in the “blogosphere” this week. Markus Mielke from the IE Blog may have released details on the CSS changes for Internet Explorer 7 but the hot topic has to be the “designer backlash” from Roger Johansson’s post “Light … Continue reading

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Site Accessibility – .net magazine

.Net magazine, based in the UK has recently had a redesign (and realign?) with many leading lights of our industry on the advisory panel or writing articles. Two full-price issues later and I’m close to getting round to taking out … Continue reading

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