If you do web accessibility work, whether a little or a lot, we invite you to take a few minutes and complete this important Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners. The responses will help inform the web accessibility community and will give us a better insight into the opinions and demographics of people working in this […]
Applying accessibility techniques to an unusable site is like putting lipstick on a pig. No matter how much you apply, it will always be a pig. There are many ways in which a web site might be made inaccessible. Believe me, we’ve seen them all. Occasionally we are asked to conduct an accessibility evaluation on […]
The results from our most recent Screen Reader User Survey are available at http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey5/. There was much interesting information provided by 1465 respondents this year. A few notable or surprising items: Screen reader usage on laptops (81% of respondents) now outpaces desktop computer usage (78%). Windows usage continues to decrease, but it is still used […]
I think we can all agree that the field of web accessibility needs more good data. Many of the arguments we make for “best practices” and guideline development are not based on substantive data. And much of the data that we do have may be fundamentally flawed due to loss aversion. This is an interesting […]
WCAG 2.0 states that conformance cannot be claimed if the methods and technologies used are not accessibility supported. In other words, the result must be some level of actual accessibility, not merely technical conformance. This is a wonderful requirement for accessibility, but as currently applied to WCAG documentation and process, this causes issues. Definitions WCAG […]
