There are a number of times where I may be called upon to test the accessibility of a website. If I’m asked to do it as part of my role as one of the Accessites team, then I will follow the publicly available Accessites Grading Checklist. If I’m asked to do it in my role [...]

A colleague at work mentioned the other day that he had been reading my blog, and had I ever contemplated writing for a living? By which I presumed that he meant he enjoyed my writing style, rather than him thinking I was an incompetent developer and should quit the day job. I pressed him on [...]

This article was inspired by the Society for Information Technology Management’s (SOCITM) publication Better Connected : Aiming High which asked users what they thought was best practice on Local Authority sites, and an explanation of how their surveying and scoring of Local Authority Websites is being changed. For the full article you will need to [...]