Well, quickly would be a good start, as it’s a lot better than WCAG 1.0 — it doesn’t rely testing based on specific technologies, but instead looks at the impact on the user. But that’s not what I’m looking at here. I’m looking at what parts of WCAG 2.0 that I think are appropriate to [...]

One of the things bloggers are asked from time to time is “why do you blog”. The answer “why not?” doesn’t seem to satisfy many, so I’m perhaps more likely to come up with some thoughts along the lines of “because I enjoy writing”, which is pretty much the main reason, although now that I’ve [...]

I wasn’t at the digital engagement conference thingummy yesterday but I was keeping an eye on the tweets of people who were talking about it, wondering if anything would strike my eye as being particularly newsworthy, or of significant import. Having quite a bit of knowledge of accessible web design and in testing against it [...]

I noticed over on Out-Law that there was a suggestion that legislation for accessible websites could be introduced across the EU: Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding has for the first time talked of a ‘European Disability Act’ that could compel EU nations to adopt web accessibility rules together so that all of Europe’s [...]

There are two problems with Internet Explorer 6. The first is that it is a very standards non-compliant browser and so has a tendency to render stuff differently to more modern, more standards-compliant browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Safari, and even the more recent incarnations of Internet Explorer. This effectively means that any web developers [...]

For all of y’all out there who want to know a little bit more about WCAG 2.0, I’m running a workshop type event with PSF in Birmingham looking at precisely that on Wednesday 4th November. Full details, including booking instructions and so on, are available on the event page at PSF’s site. It looks like [...]

Super Mondays is a “strong and vibrant IT community based in the North East Of England”. At least, that’s what it says on the tin. But having not been to a Super Mondays event before, I didn’t know that myself for sure. Which was one of the reasons (the others being networking, and an interest [...]

For any of you wanting to carry out any form of accessibility audit, you are going to need some means to record your results, as it may prove difficult to memorise the results of forty or more checkpoints across a whole swathe of pages. To this end, I’ve knocked together a little excel spreadsheet to [...]

When initially discussing setting up my own business through the “Test Trading” scheme, one of the questions I was asked by both the New Deal advisor and the person at the company who manages the Test Trading was “how much experience do I have in the area where I am going to set up the [...]

In June 2008, the COI published a document called Delivering Inclusive Websites, after a consultation period. I had stuck my oar in to contribute towards the document during the consultation period, in my then-role as chair of the Public Sector Web Management Group (PSWMG) and I think that myself and the group did actually provide [...]