Some time ago, I ran across an interesting post on Clients from Hell: Website user who couldn’t find an article emailed our help desk. We sent him the link to the content he couldn’t find. Client: “Please change the letters in your email to blue, so I can click the link.†Clients from Hell While this was intended to ridicule a misunderstanding — that the client couldn’t click the link unless the letters were blue — it does stand to […]
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James Edwards on Web Accessibility
If we call ourselves professionals, we owe it to our clients, their clients, and ourselves, to do our job properly. A chef must care about health, a builder must care about safety, and we must care about accessibility. James Edwards, aka ‘Brothercake’ has published a very neat argument on the frequently-asked question “Why Accessibility?” Read his comments at Why Accessibility? Because it’s our job!.
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The Accessibility Cookbook: a Recipe for Disaster, by Aaron Cannon. This is a very well-written article which provides an “insider’s” viewpoint from both an accessibility and an interface designer’s perspective. The article remarks, in brief, on the importance of knowing the why’s and how’s of accessibility. If you don’t understand why or how you’re helping a disabled user, you are immediately opening up a gateway to create new barriers. It’s not about following a set of rules; it’s about sitting […]
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