Today I’m going to talk a little about UK legislation and its impact on web accessibility, particularly in relation to users with disabilities. As we examined yesterday, government websites often fail to practise what they preach, but in UK terms […]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Preaching Not Practising. Web Accessibility And Governmental Organisations.
Governments and organisations make a big deal these days about the importance of accessibility. The US government has Section 508 legislation enforcing various accessibility standards, the UK references web standards in the Disability Discrimination Act, and the European Union and […]
Opera Are Behind The Times
As has been widely reported, Opera have filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission. Their argument raises issues similar to those cited in the late 1990s which led to the United States vs Microsoft civil action. Opera have […]
Drop Your Drawers.
While the Links page on the site is currently being reviewed, and so is looking pretty barren, I thought I’d take a moment to point out how it’s put together. The use of “drawers” is a simple function that can […]
WCAG Guidelines. Um…Time To Update.
Following on from my comment on the problems of being too focused on formal accessibility validation, I decided to have a look at some flaws in the most generally accepted guidelines. The World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines […]

