To Hell with WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.0 is the response from the author of Building Accessible Websites to the latest production of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)‘s Web Accessibility Initiative. Clearly, Joe Clark is not happy. And he’s not the first person to express dissatisfaction with the process and results of WCAG 2.0, either. John Foliot of Web Accessibility Technical Services has frequently expressed displeasure with their new yet fundamentally unchanged interpretation of the accesskey functionality. In […]
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An update on the Target accessibility lawsuit
See also the more recent update on the lawsuit. One of the original reasons I started this blog was to track information about the ongoing accessibility lawsuit against Target Corporation. Recently, ComputerWorld published an extensive article discussing the lawsuit and surrounding issues. The article contains a number of interesting points, including a great quote on Ajax and Accessibility from Jeff Bishop, a blind application systems analyst at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "It’s very, very, very scary. Before, so […]
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SiteMorse, for those of you who may not know, is a high-profile accessibility testing company based in the United Kingdom. They are well-known for the practice of releasing their "Rankings League Tables," which list the tested accessibility of government, banking, and other websites each month. Their particularly product is entirely automated – and has, therefore, been attacked quite heavily in the world of accessibility auditors and consultants. At the moment, there is a very interesting conversation going on at Accessify […]
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Target is being sued because their website is not accessible to blind internet users. The lawsuit is being brought forward by the National Federation of the Blind and one of its members, Bruce Sexton, a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Target’s website is unquestionably NOT accessible. In fact, at the time the lawsuit was brought forward, there were portions of the site which could only be accessed with the use of a mouse. This was a very extreme […]
Continue reading “Target Lawsuit so far . . .” »Happy New Year! and Down with Accesskeys! (Sort of)
Happy New Year! In the past month, I’ve spent most of my time being socially active, with my mother visiting me from the US, but have still managed to spend a good chunk of time learning. Amongst the things I’ve learned in the past week is good deal of valuable information concerning Accesskeys – for a brief overview, Accesskeys are a method to provide web users with a keyboard shortcut to visit pages within a website. They are a strongly […]
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