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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: Léonie Watson
Date: May 13, 2012 9:33AM

Ryan E. Benson asked:
"Is there a way to get the text back? It seems like the took the pdf down."

When I went there this morning the only option I could find was to
buy the report. $15 for non ACM members.

Léonie.

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

> Full text PDF:
> http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2207736&;ftid=1216890&dwn=1&CFID=81
> 545442&CFTOKEN=60990192
Is there a way to get the text back? It seems like the took the pdf down.

--
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=2207736&;ftid=1216890&dwn=1&CFID=81
> 545442&CFTOKEN=60990192
>
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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=2207736
>>
>> I'm glad I'm not the only one saying this any longer.
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