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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: Ryan E. Benson
Date: May 12, 2012 1:53PM

> Full text PDF:
> http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id"07736&ftid16890&dwn=1&CFID545442&CFTOKEN`990192
Is there a way to get the text back? It seems like the took the pdf down.

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Ryan E. Benson


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Bryan Garaventa
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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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> From: "Bryan Garaventa" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Guidelines are only half of the story:
> accessibilityproblems encountered by blind users on the web
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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.
>> >> >> >
> > >