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Eclipse Internet

I have the singular misfortune of developing and maintaining a web site for a client whose site is hosted with Eclipse Internet - a company whose corporate byline is “Share the experience“. So, with that in mind, I thought I’d “share” my experience of trying to run a business web site hosted by Eclipse [...]

Support And Educate

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 [...]

Yahoo Make A Boob?

Having created an excellent video demonstrating how JAWS work with web sites, Yahoo then seem to have shot themselves in the foot by simultaneously using a graphical CAPTCHA on their form for new account registrations. Unlike some of the more sympathetic CAPTCHAs, this one doesn’t even offer any form of audio support.
As a result, visually-impaired [...]

WCAG 2.0 And Testability

I’ve just been reading Gian Sampson-Wild’s article Testability Costs Too Much on A List Apart,=. she has raised an issue regarding the impact of testability upon the decision to include, or omit, some success criteria. It certainly makes for slightly disturbing reading.
I’ve had some vague feelings on unease about WCAG2.0 for a while now. Whilst [...]