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W3C Universal Validator
The goal of the Unicorn Project is to create a universal validator that will be able to validate and check multiple quality aspects of a document through a single Web interface. Unicorn As well as developing Web Standards, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) also provides online tools and services to check that content published [...]
CVS.com To Meet Web Accessibility Standards
CVS/pharmacy, the United State’s largest retail pharmacy, recently announced that it will enhance web accessibility on its site. The announcement is the result of a collaboration between CVS/pharmacy, the American Foundation for the Blind, American Council of the Blind and California Council of the Blind. CVS/pharmacy’ has committed to ensure that its online pharmacy, www.cvs.com, [...]
Staples Web Site Access
Staples, the world’s largest office products company, recently announced that it will make its web site accessible to people with disabilities. The company has also agreed to install tactile keypads at its point of sale devices so that people who have difficulty reading information on a touchscreen do not have to disclose their PIN and [...]
Law School Site Sued Over Web Access Issues
The US National Federation of the Blind; its California affiliate; and a blind law school applicant, Deepa Goraya, filed a lawsuit on February 1st 2009 against the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC). The complaint asserts that the LSAC, the body that administers the Law School Admissions Test (which most aspiring law students must take) and [...]
WCAG 2.0 Released
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 were finally published yesterday and are officially described as applying to “more advanced technologies“. The new guidelines are also supposed to be easier to use and understand (although I’d advise you keep paracetamol and plenty of coffee to hand) and are designed to be more precisely testable via [...]
Implementing WCAG 2.0
Mike Cherim has recently published an article on implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0 based on his experience of developing a AAA web site — 1 of only 2 AAA sites currently acknowledged by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). His advice and personal approach to future development pretty much confirms the same points [...]