Accessibility
- 10 things you need to know about website accessibility. - Great looking teaser site with a powerful message.
- A Dyslexic Perspective on e-Content Accessibility - Interesting article although I do wonder how much of this is actual research and how much is generally perceived wisdom. For instance I thought we'd put the whole 3 links from anywhere ghost to rest years ago.
- AJAX and Screen Readers
- AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? - Screenreader research from Brothercake
- Accessibility From The Ground Up - Good article on accessibility over at Diigital Web
- Accessibility Survey - Part of a 2.35 million euro project to develop test-suites for accessibility evaluation and repair.
- Accessibility Test Results - Screen-reader usability at a standards-compliant E-commerce site
- Accessibility Workshop with Joe Clark - If you missed Joe Clark at @media 2005 you really should get yourself along to this workshop. In this day long session Joe will be demonstrating how to build accessible sites in his own unique style.
- Accessible Data Tables
- Accessible Forms - Good article on creating accessible forms
- Benefits of an accessible website - Nice little article on the business benefits of web accessibility
- Big, Stark & Chunky - Excellent article on low vision design
- Building in universal accessibility checklist - UK Government accessibility guidelines. You need to know this stuff if you want to work on government contracts.
- Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties
- Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar - Great article from fellow BritPacker, Patrick H. Lauke
- Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys - Interesting to hear how Opera handle the issue.
- FllashAid - Using Flash to check for the existance of a screenreader.
- Formal Investigation report: web accessibility - Some time ago, the UK Disability Rights Commission announced they would be analysing the accessibility of 1,000 UK websites. They released their report a few months ago and it makes very interesting reading. If you design or commission websites I would highly recommend spending some time reviewing their finding.
- Formal Investigation report: web accessibility - A while back the Disability Rights Commission undertook a project to analyse the accessibility of 1,000 UK websites. Their recently published results make very interesting reading.
- GUUUI - Accessibility humanized
- Guidelines for accessible and usable web sites (pdf) - Interesting report based on the observation of actual screenreader users
- High Accessibilty, High Design - Joe Clark's SXSW presentation on accessibility
- I don't care about accessibility - Jeffrey Veen's SXSW lecture notes
- Interview with Derek Featherstone - He's got some interesting things to so, so it's worth checking out.
- Levels of Accessibility Knowledge - Very funny!
- Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers
- Page Source Order & Accessibility - Are skip links and source order important?
- Search Engine Optimisation and Accessibility - a paper discussing how the W3C accessibility guidelines are used to improve performance in search engines.
- Sim Daltonism - Colour blindness simulator for OS X
- Simple, accessible "more" links - Smart, intuitive way of handling more links.
- Skills for Access - The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning
- Skip Navigation - Really interesting and useful article on skip navigation.
- Skip navigation links - How to create accessible skip nav links.
- Skip-a-dee-doo-dah - More on skip nav links
- Staying on Target - Evil pressure group infringes companies right to make an honest living. Or so you'd think from some of the comments!
- Three Things I Learned About Screen Reader Users - How screenreader users really use the web.
- To Hell with WCAG 2 - A fantastic rant about WCAG2 from the Internets Joe Clark
- Wearing badges is not enough - Thought provoking post about validation and accessibility badges.
- Web Usability Checking for Blind and Vision Impaired - Download the pdf of a presentation given to the Sydney WSG on accessibility testing.
- What's Wrong with Flickr? - Ian Lloyd tells it like it is!
- Writing a Good Accessibility Statement - Some good tips here
- Your Usability Resource - Usability and Accessibility blog
- aking Compact Forms More Accessible - Nice little tutorial on manipulating lables with JavaScript on compact forms such as logins.
