I’m a believer in equality. I believe in equality of opportunity, although to be that’s a fancy way of saying I believe in fairness. Which is why I’ve produced a set of posts on the theme of equality, rambling through my beliefs and experiences as regards equalities and politics, sexism, sexuality, racism and disability. A [...]

I’m a believer in equality. I believe in equality of opportunity, although to be that’s a fancy way of saying I believe in fairness. Which is why I’ve produced a set of posts on the theme of equality, rambling through my beliefs and experiences as regards equalities and politics, sexism, sexuality, racism and disability. A [...]

I’m a believer in equality. I believe in equality of opportunity, although to be that’s a fancy way of saying I believe in fairness. Which is why I’ve produced a set of posts on the theme of equality, rambling through my beliefs and experiences as regards equalities and politics, sexism, sexuality, racism and disability. A [...]

I’m a believer in equality. I believe in equality of opportunity, although to be that’s a fancy way of saying I believe in fairness. Which is why I’ve produced a set of posts on the theme of equality, rambling through my beliefs and experiences as regards equalities and politics, sexism, sexuality, racism and disability. A [...]

One of the key concepts of WCAG 2.0 is testability. This is about ensuring that each success criterion can be tested either by a machine, or manually in such a way that at least 80% of the human testers would agree whether it is a success or a failure. Testability Costing Too Much? Gian Sampson-Wild [...]

I noted earlier today that Mike Davies from Isolani has picked up on a piece I wrote in October last year called Be Accessible, Don’t Meet Guidelines, in which I tried to argue that WCAG was not infallible, and that it was more important to recognise the real-world accessibility needs of website users than it [...]

Ah yes, the ongoing saga of whether or not WCAG 2.0 should include validity in there somewhere. Well, according to the lastest minutes of the Working Group, they have finally got around to looking at it, and they have decided to refer the issue back to Committee. They had previously dropped validity from their criteria, [...]

After offering my own thoughts on the Better Connected 2007 thing, where I mentioned some of the problems in trying to assess accessibility, particularly when it comes to measuring it across different websites. I’ve since volunteered to give someone else’s site a good going-over and do an accessibility audit for them — and provide them [...]

There’s bit a bit of a furore going on in the last couple of weeks in some quarters as regards assessing accessibility of different websites and comparing them against one another. Basically, what has happened is that the SOCITM Better Connected 2007 report was published, looking at the state of Local Government websites across the [...]

Well, to those of you who have forgotten, WCAG 2.0 was that document published by the WAI on the 27th April 2006, almost a year ago. They weren’t exactly published to universal acclaim, with a number of commenters highlighting significant problems: To Hell With WCAG 2.0 — Joe Clark WCAG 2.0: When I Want A [...]