Most UK Web Sites Break Accessibility Laws
News The initiative could lead to the development of a European-wide "e-accessibility" mark or logo for Web sites, similar to the RNIB's See it Right Accessible Website logo, but applied throughout Europe by members of the Consortium.
[March 23, 2004, 12:25]
W3C Finalises Disability Guidelines
News The W3C's recommendation of its User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 brings to completion the third guideline document under development by the group's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). A working group is drafting XML Accessibility...
[December 19, 2002, 8:37]
Adapting The Web Development Environment For Accessible And Usable Application Construction
White Papers W3C Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative is the most significant normative effort in this direction, and provides an evolving corpus of accessibility recommendations for HTML and, in the future, for other Web languages.
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
W3C Issues Handicap Guidelines For The Web
News The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 are the culmination of an 18-month effort by W3C officials to guide Web developers through the often-confusing process of making sites open to users with visual, hearing or other disabilities, said Judy...
[May 7, 1999, 8:19]
W3C Launches Mobile Standards Push
News The Web Accessibility Initiative, founded in 1997, has focused on education, advocacy and technical development to promote the development of Web content accessible by people with disabilities. The W3C, on Wednesday announced its Mobile Web...
[May 12, 2005, 9:50]
Study Criticises UK Banking Web Sites
News The sites were also tested against the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines, which aim to ensure people with disabilities are not prevented from accessing information on the Web site -- though this score was not factored into the overall...
[March 31, 2004, 11:55]
Blind Surfers Win Concessions From Travel Sites
News They've also agreed to clearly label graphics and images and comply with a range of other accessibility standards outlined by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an Internet standards body.
[August 23, 2004, 8:25]
Government Sites Continue To Flout Standards
News Furthermore, only four of the sites tested passed tests for compliance with the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines. Every one of the other 58 sites failed to meet the basic Priority 1 requirements -- the most basic level of accessibility...
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
WaSP Looks To Order Scripted Chaos
News The renaissance in Web scripting has come at a cost to accessibility and adherence to Web standards, advocates warn. Worse, these sites' accessibility efforts were too often limited to saying 'Sorry' to users of the wrong browser.
[July 19, 2005, 17:25]
W3C Challenges Developers On Mobile Web
News Phillip Hoschka, W3C deputy director, likened using the Web on handhelds today with the Web in 1995, where there were problems with interoperability, speed, protecting children from inappropriate content and accessibility.
[November 16, 2005, 17:20]
Socitm To Probe Accessibility Of Council Websites
News Last year's report noted that the number of council sites achieving level A of WCAG1.0 — the web-accessibility guideline published by the World Wide Web Consortium — had not increased over the previous three years.
[February 5, 2008, 14:04]
KDE Developers Focus On Accessibility
News Accessibility is a major theme at the KDE Community World Summit, currently taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany. On 22 and 23 August the summit held a Unix Accessibility Forum, bringing together developers and people with disabilities.
[August 25, 2004, 17:35]
Web Sites Under Scrutiny For Disabled Access
News The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) has had a campaign running on the issue of Web accessibility for the past three years and produced their results," he said, "but the scope of the DRC investigation is far wider-reaching and the...
[April 8, 2003, 11:00]
Local Authorities Failing On E-accessibility
News It says that just 62 Web sites achieve Level A conformance with WAI [Web Accessibility Initiative] guidelines for accessibility. They measured Web site content, availability of interactive applications, usability and accessibility, quality of...
[March 2, 2005, 13:10]
When Is A Mouse Not A Mouse?
News Local government fared better, but 40 percent of these sites also failed to meet accessibility standards. It is available on DVD-ROM and CD-ROM and available via the RNID Web site. The Web site for Together IT Works, the joint effort between RNID...
[May 26, 2004, 16:55]
Policies And Practices In The Utilization Of Interactive Television And Web-Based Delivery Models In Public Universities
White Papers Issues such as the integration of additional hardware, equality and quality of the hardware, accessibility to students, maintenance, support costs and personnel issues, infrastructure, and the transmission costs are new aspects which must be...
[April 21, 2005, 0:00]
