I’ve noticed this over the last say 18 to 12 months, things are changing in the web community. There are still the usual arguments between people and various factional groups. That’s nothing new there. No it’s something more. It’s like a complacency, that we have all fought hard and that the war is over and we can live now in a golden age. The voices of leadership seem to be dropping away, not being as potent or vocal as they once where. Molly Holzschlag has seen it to, and again call people to arms, I seem to remember Molly doing this before recently.
You know the story. Your client or boss wants to put a report online, it’s just a few pages long, but they want exact print output control of the document or they just want to ensure that the cost is kept to a minimum. So you end up putting the document online as a PDF. Now I ask you is it really readable by everyone. That is normal viewers, assistative technology viewers, search engine bots and viewers in remote areas on slow connections. I can bet that in most cases one of these groups is missing out
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I first encountered Jeremy Keith via his book DOM Scripting, and then again in Sydney at Web Directions 2006, where I attended a very good workshop he ran on DOM Scripting.
Unlike Jeremy’s first book DOM Scripting, which is basically a getting starting guide on DOM Scripting and its use to enhance a web site. Bulletproof Ajax, his latest book, takes things to the next level, in a way. It deals in-depth with the use of Ajax on a web site front end and it’s implementation with the least impact on accessibility and usability of the web site.
Are we all doing the right thing with respect to web standards, and accessibility?
Well, Nomensa recently released the full report on United Nations global audit of web accessibility. This report while only taking a very quick snap shot was damning on the application of web accessibility across the board.
The report, which has been only available as an Executive Summary since it was released on 5th December 2006, reveals that 97% of websites tested fail to achieve the minimum web accessibility level.
