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accessible?

How can everyone else be expected to achieve website accessibility, if the experts can't? [...]

Problems with automated accessibility testing tools

An automated accessibility tool is a piece of software which can test a web page, or even an entire website, for accessibility. Some companies use t [...]

Accessibility testing experience documented

Dan Champion discusses the results of some web accessibility testing he observed at the Shaw Trust regional headquarters. This testing was undertake [...]

RNIB accreditation for accessible council website

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council's website has won a prestigious award for its commitment to making information accessible to the disabled, si [...]

Odeon re-designed

Pretty decent effort from Odeon in providing an accessible website. And they even offer a Flash-alternative to booking your tickets. News story. [...]

Legal Precedent Set for Web Accessibility

A federal district court judge ruled yesterday that a retailer may be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind... full story at Yahoo Finance [...]

Not making friends or influencing people

Over at The Web Standards Project Malarkey talks about how the accessibility experts of the world have taken umbrage to a piece of software that run [...]

Website owners sued by blind person

A blind UC Berkeley student has filed a class-action lawsuit against Target Corp., saying the retailer is committing civil-rights violations because [...]

Clackmannanshire Council web triumph

Some good press for Dan Champion as Clackman nanshire Council website wins top prize for accessibility. [...]

ATRIEV

ATRIEV is a website completely designed by a blind person. [...]

See JAWS being used by a blind tester

On the afternoon of Monday 11 September Test Partners are running a demonstration of the JAWS screen reader with a blind tester to illustrate the issu [...]

FREE accessibility statement

Need an accessibility statement for your site? Thierry Koblentz has produced one, with the help of some accessibility friends, which you can freely us [...]

Are the disabled revolting?

An article on The Register suggests that there may be a massive revolt by disabled internet users in the aftermath of the PAS 78 document release.Th [...]

uk council site leads by example

I'm not sure if you've noticed that UK council websites are quite commonly poorly designed and badly coded. Well, today I was pleasantly surprised [...]

Mozilla's accessibility vision

An overview of what Mozilla has planned for future software releases in terms of accessibility. [...]

Government sites fail web tests

A report on the BBC website statesMore than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research [...]

Tesco online monopoly

A report on the AbilityNet website suggests that Tesco is the only online supermarket (in the UK) that provides an accessible shopping experience. [...]

Accessibility In Trouble 2: Standards

Mike Davies reckons web accessibility is heading for trouble. [...]

Accessibility Is Not Enough

In typical, blustery fashion, Jakob Nielsen decries that having an accessible web site isn't enough... it's got to be usable as well.A strict focus [...]

CSS Accessibility

New to CSS? Try out these useful tips which highlight good CSS practices that benefit accessibility. [...]

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Interesting viewpoint this:So just what is a decorative image? It seems to me that one person's eye candy is another person's emotional link to a webs [...]

Advanced Accessibility Techniques

Trenton Moss shares a few accessibility tips in an article at Out-Law.com [...]

Web Accessibility

The Business Case for Web Accessibility is an article written by Andy Budd, and well worth reading if you design websites for business clients. [...]

Council websites reviewed for accessibility

This article highlights a recent review of UK council websites,Herefordshire Council has come top of November's Local Government league table for we [...]

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