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Accessibility tests from the BBC
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A nice article on the BBC’s website explains accessibility and what problems people have with non-accessible websites.
A blind person who works for the BBC was set the task of buying a book from Amazon, and her experience was very interesting.
Accessibility is a big thing, and we need to be thinking of this at the initial stages of web development, not as an after thought.
Here’s a nice finding from the UK’s Disability Rights Commission:
“If a site is accessible by a disabled user it is also a third quicker for an able-bodied person to complete tasks too”
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“There’s a technology called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) .. However, that’s quite a new technology, it’s only been around a couple of years, and a lot of designers are still very wary of using it.”
Maybe they ought to have spoken to someone with a little more authority on this matter? Leonie Watson seems not to be at the top of her game.
I covered this story when it was first run, which I strung out as a series of posts on web standards, web accessibility and the legality thereof.
There’s a long, long way to go yet, but things are definitely going to improve, there’s no doubting that…
Hi Wayne, yes I did chuckle to myself when I read that bit of the article!