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Free Copy of PAS 78 Back Again

Published: November 15th 2007

A copy of PAS 78: a guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites was previously available on the web site of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). However, on October 1st 2007, the DRC joined forces with the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality to form a new body - the Equality [...]

NoSquint

Published: October 5th 2007

Following on from discussions about text-sizing widgits on sites, I just been told about a new Firefox extension that might help the less confident users who are wary of using Firefox’s “View > Text size” option.
NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is very useful if [...]

Support And Educate

Published: October 5th 2007

Grant Broome has recently expressed some reservations over the suggestion that site developers abandon text-sizing widgits in favour of educating users instead. He’s worried that this approach is overly biased
Personally, I don’t see this discussion as particularly biased. More of a natural maturing within the web accessibility development sector. For years, we’ve been aware that [...]

CAPTCHAs Shut Out Blind Users

Published: October 4th 2007

If anyone still has doubts about the problems that visual CAPTCHAs can create, I suggest that they check out a video produced by the American Federation for the Blind (AFB).
Entitled “CAPTCHAs on Social Networking Sites Shut Out Blind Users“, the video presents a very compelling case against purely visual challenges. However, as the video has [...]