There’s bit a bit of a furore going on in the last couple of weeks in some quarters as regards assessing accessibility of different websites and comparing them against one another. Basically, what has happened is that the SOCITM Better Connected 2007 report was published, looking at the state of Local Government websites across the [...]

Two of the sites I have an interest in, Accessites and Revish have undergone some changes recently. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m one of the site graders for Accessites. At times, this has meant quite a significant investment of time from all of the graders, and because we do have other lives to lead — [...]

I don’t know a great deal about AJAX, DHTML and all that associated jazz, so I hadn’t actually been expecting to comment on the WAI’s work on their “Accessibility for Rich Internet Applications” (ARIA) suite.
Nonetheless, I’d suggest that — as they did for WCAG 2.0 after Joe Clark nagged them about it — that they [...]

Well, to those of you who have forgotten, WCAG 2.0 was that document published by the WAI on the 27th April 2006, almost a year ago.
They weren’t exactly published to universal acclaim, with a number of commenters highlighting significant problems:

To Hell With WCAG 2.0 — Joe Clark
WCAG 2.0: When I Want A Beer Don’t Give [...]

Over the last month, I’ve encountered a whole swathe of websites and web applications that have been put together by obviously intelligent people — there’s some serious processing going on in some of ‘em — and yet don’t offer so much as a nod towards web standards or web accessibility.
So it got me wondering. What’s [...]

I came across Ian Lloyd asking “What’s your story?” earlier on today. He was talking about web accessibility. In other words, how did I end up being involved with, and passionate about web accessibility?
I could argue that I don’t know any disabled people, but that’s perhaps not true now. It would be more accurate [...]

I’ve always described myself as being in the camp that defines accessibility as making things accessible to all, as this feels like the best fit for what I believe to be correct. The other camp being of course that accessibility is about making things accessible to people with disabilities (For further discussion about the deciding [...]

I had been planning on taking another little look at what was happening with the old Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) over the next week or so but gosh darn it, Joe Clark has beaten me to it (which reminds me, have you donated any money to his micropatronage project yet?).
Very well, rather than do [...]

… to tell your government that you don’t want hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money being spent on websites which don’t meet the basic specifications they were asked to meet — and in order to bring them up to speed, more of our public money will need to be spent.
It’s your money, and [...]

Tom Shakespeare, that is. I was reading an article by Tom Shakespeare on the BBC Disability Blog “Ouch!” where he talks about a disturbing new development — or removal of it — from America.
This cunning plan which emerged from an endocrinologist and a bioethicist in Seattle, suggests that it may be possible, and in some [...]