web accessibilty
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- osk
DDA compliant sites, web accessibilty...where's a good place to start looking on how to meet these standards?
- ribit0
I'd like to know first *which* standards to try to meet... ADA, DDA, W3C, ??, etc...
This looks useful:
http://www.accessify.com
- osk0
hmmm...so what if the person viewing the website is partial sighted, is the answer bright colours and super sized text??
- welded0
Make the site screen reader friendly, possibly a text only version. This is where that whole seperate information and design thing comes in. It's been a while since I looked at it, but the Zeldman book, Designing For Web Standards is good.
- osk0
- ribit0
Does anyone have something that gives an overview of legal requirements for accessibility for commercial sites with a global audience? (i dont think there are any).
- normal0
There aren't any explicit legal requirements only suggestions of what "should" be done as posted in the w3 link prior to this. It's not terribly difficult to create accessible websites and it is good practice to get into. If your code is clean and/or you use xhtml + CSS you're about 90% there already. I had to follow the guidelines set forth by the W3 for the Athens Olympics websites that I created about 2 years ago.
- DogsBreath0
Buuger accessibility...why should sites be designed so a fraction of society can view them?
The extra $$$ it can take to make a site accessible are often just not justified. It's like a form of political correctness...is your site %&$HTML compliant?
Bugger that!
- welded0
*pokes DogsBreath in the eyes*
- ribit0
It is important...but remember its not so simple for businesses to comply, depending on their situation. We have over 10000 pages on our site, but its all lfat HTML with no CMS, so until we can move it all to a CMS we have no hope of complying... hopefully late next year.