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Re: Guidelines are only half of the story: accessibility problems encountered by blind users on the web

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: May 9, 2012 11:03AM

Sorry about that, forgot to add the description.

This paper describes an empirical study of the problems encountered by 32
blind users on the Web. Task-based user evaluations were undertaken on 16
websites, yielding 1383 instances of user problems. The results showed that
only 50.4% of the problems encountered by users were covered by Success
Criteria in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). For
user problems that were covered by WCAG 2.0, 16.7% of websites implemented
techniques recommended in WCAG 2.0 but the techniques did not solve the
problems. These results show that few developers are implementing the
current version of WCAG, and even when the guidelines are implemented on
websites there is little indication that people with disabilities will
encounter fewer problems. The paper closes by discussing the implications of
this study for future research and practice. In particular, it discusses the
need to move away from a problem-based approach towards a design principle
approach for web accessibility.


Full text PDF:
http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id"07736&ftid16890&dwn=1&CFID545442&CFTOKEN`990192

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> This is an interesting article from the University of York
> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id"07736
>
> I'm glad I'm not the only one saying this any longer.
> > >