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High Accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization

New article at A List Apart from Andy Hagans, where he explains that making your site accessible and opimising your site for good search engine resu [...]

Clackmannanshire Council web triumph

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

Simply Accessible

Derek Featherstone has a new site called Simply Accessible focusing on tips and tricks on producing and maintaining an accessibile website. The conte [...]

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 investigates Ryanair's online offering

The RNIB says that Ryanair appears to be offering disabled passengers a lower standard of service when they book over its website. If proved, Ryanai [...]

accessible PDFs

Joe Clark runs through some points about accessible PDFs in reaction to an an article that Isolani produced after meeting a few Adobe delegates at a [...]

Testing with Screen Readers:

I like this style of explaining about things. Paul Bohman has tackled the subject of web accessibility in terms of using screen readers by posing hi [...]

Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

Looks like a useful resource for all things web design and accessibilty. [...]

Accessible Data Tables

Thorough article by Roger Hudson on how to create accessible data tables. [...]

Colour Blind Info

colour-blind.info looks like a useful resource on all colour accessibility matters. [...]

10 Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility

Chris Heilmann provide a great overview of what his clients think about accessibility: 10 Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility. [...]

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 [...]

A List Apart

has a rather lovely new design in place. They've opted for a fixed width design, so you see scrollbars at 800 x 600 resolution... this is probably [...]

IBM Contributes DHTML Accessibility Code to Mozilla

"In Mozilla Firefox 1.5, the behaviour of the tabindex HTML attribute will be altered, allowing authors to create Web applications that are faster t [...]

Color Theory for the Color-Blind

article at Digital Web Magazine. [...]

wanna know about access keys?

Using Accesskeys - Is it worth it?, More reasons why we don't use accesskeys, Accesskeys and Reserved Keystroke Combinations, Link Relationships as [...]

WAI re-design

is now in place. [...]

Accessibility is in everyone's interest

The World Health Organization estimates that between 750 million and 1 billion of the world's 6 billion people have a speech, vision, mobility, heari [...]

Screen-reader usability at a standards-compliant E-commerce site

a hot topic for myself as I venture into my first proper e-commerce site as we speak: a ccessibility and e-commerce are not an easy pairing.What was [...]

colour blind barrier free

How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to color blind people. [...]

Accessibility Testing Software Compared

useful paper on accessibility testing software. [...]

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 [...]

Frog Pad

This looks like it could be a uesful acessibility tool: Frog Pad is a keyboard designed for use with one hand. [...]

Access the inaccessible

Isofarro shares his thoughts about the recent Sitemorse accessibility PR debacle. [...]

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