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The Lost Accessibility Audience

Mar
16
2011

Being One Eyed About Accessibility - a red LED pillon on the Wellington, NZ foreshore

It’s become apparent we really aren’t focusing much on the accessibility needs of our aged population; and by aged I’m dumping middle-aged people like me in that group to – that’s anyone 40+.

Now I’m well on the way to being truly on the wrong side of 40, so these accessibly issues are starting to become noticeable day to day on a personal level. So this issue is a little personal.

By focusing on the aged community is not t to say we should ignore the needs of the traditional accessibility community.  Just let’s give some consideration to the aged people too.

Kill Accessibility

May
20
2010

Stairways to nowhere

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.