Odeon Reels Out Accessibility Excuses
News The Odeon cinema chain has been accused of breaching the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) despite making improvements to its online film information and booking site. But the changes have not impressed accessibility consultancy The Usability...
[September 23, 2004, 13:00]
Disability Legislation Puts Onus On IT Managers
News It was created under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2005, which was first passed in 1995, but revised a decade later. The DDA simply requires that organisations make "reasonable adjustments" when catering to the requirements of people with...
[October 31, 2006, 12:54]
Web Standards
Talkback Surely your dev team have heard of web standards (www.webstandards.org) accessibility and the DDA? If not who have you got in charge of development? I notice you removed the BETA tag from your logo top left but you should not be asking about how to...
[November 18, 2007, 14:54]
Firefox? Bah Humbug, I Say
Talkback The page you've put together is not DDA or section 508 compliant - you can keep your old standards the rest of us will move on - It has NOTHING to do with political correct ness in regards to critising open source software - its a great product...
[December 1, 2004, 10:33]
UK Financial Organisations Offer Firefox Support
Talkback I hope they are ensuring that the sites are DDA compliant too. You shouldn't be praising them for converting the site to be standards compliant. Rather you should be castigating them for making something that was built to proprietary standards in...
[November 18, 2005, 6:24]
Lawyer Warns That PDFs Fail On Accessibility
News Struan Robertson, a senior associate at Pinsent Masons and the editor of IT law website Out-law.com, said that the accessibility of the PDF (portable document format) was often forgotten, even by those companies that are striving to comply with...
[May 1, 2007, 16:29]
