That Standards Guy

Spotted via Accessify.com.

TAW3 is a free tool to test web pages against WCAG 1.0, developed by the Fundación CTIC. It is available both as an online version (which only offers a basic, single page check) and as a powerful stand-alone java application for a variety of platforms (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris, […]

I, along with many others in the web standards and accessibility designer community I’m sure, would love to hear why the new redesign of the Disney Store was not developed to W3C web standards and accessibility guidelines. They had such a wonderful site with Andy Clarke - valid and semantic XHTML markup, valid stylesheet and […]

On 31 October 2005 I was accepted into the Guild of Accessible Web Designers, a world-wide association of organisations and accessible web designers and developers - designed to both promote and protect accessible design standards.

European Parliament

Not only is the code a mess but you can’t even complete the contact form and tell the webmaster what an abortion the site is. You’d have thought that with the budget available the EU could have gotten a competent web designer? It’s not even clear what the home page is.

The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) have centralised information about the Disability Discrimination Act (1995 and 2005) and Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001). Access this important resource on the DDA and SENDA from the DRC here.