Web AxeImproving accessibility for motor impaired users is a great article from WebCredible.com.
Topics include:
What’s the heck’s going on with WCAG 2.0? Last I heard turned out to be an April Fool’s joke!
Thankfully, Jared Smith of The Web Standards Project (and WebAIM) has interviewed Judy Brewer on the subject. Judy is the Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). WCAG 2.0 is apparently in the second stage of four. Although moving very slowly, it seems many of the large concerns of the development community are being address (such as the complex language of the first draft).
Here’s a detailed article from Karl Groves entitled Top 5 Roadblocks to Web Accessibility. He examines the following most common mistakes for an accessible web site:
The BBC reports on a new technology from IBM that helps visually impaired access content of web video. The tool is codenamed “A-Browser” and should release later this year. IBM hopes to make it free.
Technology giant, IBM, is soon to launch a multimedia browser to make audio and video content accessible to people with vision impairments.
Here’s a good article from Juicy Studio on choosing a CMS with accessibility and other considerations in mind. The highest ranked were Quick and Easy, Plone, and Drupal (with “some customisation”).
The criteria used in the testing were:
The CMS’s evaluated were: