Another new article at Practical eCommerce: New Accessibility Guidelines Part III: Understandability. It’s exactly what it says on the cover: a discussion of the “Understandable” guideline from the four principles laid out in WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2. Enjoy!
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Practical eCommerce Article: WCAG 2, part II: Operability
So, part II of my series on WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2 for Practical eCommerce magazine was published on Tuesday of last week. Obviously, I need to subscribe to the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed for new articles at Practical eCommerce — because I didn’t even know this had been published! Usually, I spend a day going back and forth with the editor before a new article is published — but I guess that this one just didn’t need […]
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Practical eCommerce magazine interviewed me on subject pertaining to web site accessibility and the world of small business e-commerce recently — the interview is available from Practical eCommerce now! The interview includes discussion of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), web standards and accessibility standards in general, and common accessibility issues with e-commerce sites. A transcript of the interview should be available sometime next week.
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So I’ve been very quiet here frequently. Few articles, few comments on recent news, and only the occasional update to my WordPress plugins. However, I haven’t been entirely silent on the web accessibility front! My latest article New Accessibility Guidelines: A Welcomed Update was published yesterday (and I totally failed to make note of it here) at Practical eCommerce magazine. This is part one of a four part series reviewing each of the four guiding principles as described in WCAG […]
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WebAIM has just published the preliminary results of a survey of screen reader users. With over 1,100 respondents — among whom over 1,000 used a screen reader due to a disability — the survey shows promise of revealing an interesting and valuable perspective on the practical usage of screen readers among disabled populations. Obviously, no survey is perfect — but observing the overall scope of responses can effectively expose some aspects of screen reader usage. In fact, the preliminary results […]
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