For some of us, reading the manual is conceding defeat.
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My attention was recently caught by a post from Rosie Sherry called Showing web accessibility statements the door. In this post, Rosie wondered if perhaps web accessibility statements were being taken too far? She felt that, in general, accessibility statements were:
Too long
Technically orientated
Focused on displaying of adherence to standards
ITPro are currently hosting a Reuters’ article entitled “Websites must be accessible to disabled, firms told” that contains a somewhat inaccurate statement. Namely:
“It’s the silver bullet,” IMRG’s Chief Executive James Roper told Reuters. “Put this little button on your site and suddenly you are legal.”
The ‘it’ being referred to is apparently (and once again) the [...]
Accessites.org boasts an impressive showcase of some of the most attractive and accessible sites around. Yet, if you check any of these sites out, you’ll find very few of them sport a “Triple-A” badge. Most only claim Double-A compliance. Why? If these sites are amongst the “best of the best”, why aren’t they Triple-A?
Because the [...]
Mark Gristock, marketing director of usability firm Foviance has attacked web accessibility consultants and organisations for, in his opinion, deliberately witholding their knowledge of user requirements from the rest of the web design sector. He then goes onto say:
If they had any interest in raising standards, they would be sharing their findings with the world [...]