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How readable is your writing?

Have you ever considered how easy it is to read and understand what you write and publish on your site? I'm not just referring to literacy or eloque [...]

Derek Featherstone interview

Carolyn Wood at Digital Web Magazine speaks to Derek Featherstone about accessibility and other web design related stuff. [...]

Accessible Content Magazine

And old issues are accessible online too. [...]

Google's Doors Still Shut to Blind

Google's use of CAPTCHAs does them a great disservice according to this article. [...]

National Tinnitus Week

Over 4.7 million people UK-wide suffer symptoms like constant ringing noises. My father got his ears syringed once and his tinnitus started the very [...]

Future proofing

I like this wee ditty. [...]

Accessible E-commerce web sites fail

In light of the recent Target Inc. / National Federation for the Blind episode, Matt May at The Web Standards Project highlights the fact that many [...]

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 [...]

Quoted

Although it might not be obvious at first, there are reasons browsers render form controls and links the way they do. If you want to override them a [...]

Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1)

The first in a two part article by Christian Heilmann has been published at D igital Web Magazine and discusses mistakes commonly made between web d [...]

Accessibility of AJAX Application

Webaim have begun a series of articles on the accessibility of AJAX. [...]

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 [...]

Quoted

Joe Clark, when describing the compatibility of the site The Free City of Leslieville, which he's recently launched.The site was not tested in IE5/ [...]

Accesssites.org

Check out Accessites.org. You wouldn't be blamed for drawing a parallel with CSS showcase sites like CSS Vault or Stylegala because Accessites.org [...]

Page Source Order & Accessibility

Excellent slide report summarising of the importance of the source order of a web page in terms of it's accessibility. [...]

Simple, accessible external links

Russ at Max Design shows us how to do accessible external links. [...]

User-defined Access keys

Gez Lemon and Rich Pedley have been devising a technique that allows a website user to define their own shortcut keys. Gez says:Access keys are a [...]

Write a good accessibility statement

Gez lists some very useful information to consider if you want to provide an Accessibility Statement on your site. [...]

Free handbook on accessibility and usability

Webcr edible are giving away (until 23rd December) free copies of their 100 page handbook on web accessibility and usability. Short article at Out-La [...]

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 [...]

Government websites fail to meet standards

Article at The Register highlights that the vast majority of public service websites in Europe are failing to meet international e-accessibility sta [...]

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 [...]

accessibility issues with colour blindness

Richard Rutter talks about how his colour blindness has had little effect on how he views websites. He believes that simply considering the design s [...]

More Clacksweb coverage

Here's some more coverage for Dan's recent Clacksweb success. [...]

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