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The importance of website accessibility
Website accessibility is critical to user Internet experience. It’s associated with the development of websites that can be accessed by everyone who wants to access them. And when I say “everyone”, it includes those with disabilities. Despite the fact that the Internet is growing, a lot of users do not have all the resources necessary [...]
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W3C Standards and Accessible Web
As someone who has been building websites for many years, I can tell you the two areas that are the least understood and the most maligned are compliance and accessibility. Seen as a type of website welfare, only for the few, they are often ignored as an “only if I have to” or “only if [...]
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BS 8878 – Web accessibility is the key
A DRAFT British Standard on web accessibility warns organisations to consider how easily users with disabilities can access websites on mobile phones, tablets and TVs. Ignoring their needs could breach BS 8878 and the Equality Act, it says. Standards body BSI has launched a second consultation on “BS 8878 Web Accessibility – Code of Practice”. [...]
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BSI invites comments on new web accessibility standard
Comments are being invited for a new draft standard focusing on accessibility within website design. The DPC BS 8878 Web Accessibility Code of Practice from the British Standards Institute (BSI) will accept comments until June 30th and focuses on how to create organisational policies and production processes to ensure websites do not exclude elderly and [...]
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Equality act 2010 power could take sites down for having poor accessibility
The new Equality act 2010 is designed to replace the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and, like it, says that websites must be accessible to disabled users (albeit the language is harder to follow). Few have sued website owners under the old law and none of these cases resulted in a judgment. But in what looks [...]
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