Let’s get some reality on the web accessibility debate.
We all know about WCAG 1, we have all at least had a look at the associated checklists. If you are lucky you may have glanced at WCAG 2.
We all have been developing and designing our sites with semantic content, in compliance with W3C guidelines, using progressive enhancement for the interactive components, unobtrusive Javascript, and graceful degradation of the pages for legacy browsers. Maybe used some of the attributes of ARIA. Sure that’s a no brainer.
We know that doing this will solve most of the accessibility issues.
Tagged: a11y, accessibility, aria, BarCampPerth, calltoaction, inclusive design, p52, patterns, perthbc4, project-52, solution, tokenism, universal design, wcag1, wcag2
With all the discussion, earlier in the month, on the way the W3C working groups are made up and operate, the influence of the browser and software producers on the web industry. We really have to consider do we have this around the right way. There has been calls for removal of the software producers from the working groups. Now I’m not going to debate that topic here, I think we have all done this to death at the moment.
Tagged: associations, browser wars, calltoaction, Government, lobbying, lobbyists, professionalism, standards, w3c, web industry, web standards
