Do you think you can ignore web accessibility?

Andrew — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:21:39 +0000

I am feeling really frustrated today.

I have been interacting with some organisations here in Queensland that feel that feel that web accessibility does not apply to them.

Can I point out that:

Under section 67(1)(k) of the Disability Discrimination Act, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Hreoc) issues guidelines for the purpose of avoiding discrimination in this area.

- Computerworld

The W3C WCAG checkpoints are the measure of compliance.

Sure for private organisations there is “unjustifiable hardship” but for government sites this does not apply.

I wrote a position piece on this topic back in 2003 or 2004 maybe. I will dig it up and post it up here – I wonder if my comments in that paper still stand today?

W3C WCAG 2.0 resources

Andrew — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:34:10 +0000

I am a member of WIPA and I am on the WIPA Accessibility email list. I thought I would post this excellent WCAG 2.0 resource that appeared on this list on 17 September 2008:

from    Roger Hudson
date    Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM
subject    [WIPA Accessibility] forms and WCAG 2.0

In June I prepared a paper for the WIPA site which compares the accessibility Checkpoints of WCAG 1.0 with the Success Criteria and Techniques in WCAG 2.0. The paper, “Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0” can be found at http://wipa.org.au/papers/wcag-migration.htm

Following on from this, I have recently prepared an article that concentrates on making accessible forms. The article provides practical advice and compares the WCAG 1.0 accessibility requirements relating to forms with those contained in WCAG 2.0 and is at http://www.usability.com.au/resources/wcag2/

The article contains 6 video segments where Andrew Downie demonstrates screen readers in action on specific aspects of forms. The videos are also available here:

Label and titles: http://dotsub.com/view/9787ebec-941f-4e04-a5dc-f6ed7fde7247

Forms in datatables: http://dotsub.com/view/b885eaad-5397-4db6-9970-ee39f51ed7ab

Fieldset, Legend and nested fieldsets: http://dotsub.com/view/0064d19b-a8da-4729-86f7-a45aaa5bdd57

Form errors and corrections: http://dotsub.com/view/9276a7d3-cca5-4285-9a5d-89b21c0f9e57

Dynamically populated JavaScript Select Menu: http://dotsub.com/view/4e2b28d0-4c13-4e98-8ce3-b380ef4be710

Show and hide form sections: http://dotsub.com/view/1cb6c35a-fc12-4f90-8faa-b5490d87ac2d

I hope you find this useful

Roger

Without doubt Roger, this is a great resource. Thank you!

Andrew Stevens » WCAG

Do you think you can ignore web accessibility?

W3C WCAG 2.0 resources