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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: Steve Faulkner
Date: May 14, 2012 4:50AM

Detlev Fischer has undertaken a sobering of the study:
Methodological flaws put question mark on study of the impact of WCAG on
user problem http://www.bitvtest.eu/articles/article/lesen/chi2012-wcag.html

On 14 May 2012 11:16, Karlen Communications
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> You wrote: "The only workable solution for this situation, is to merge
> accessibility with the development of web technologies so that future
> innovations already have an accessible platform from which to work. Then
> the
> standards can be used to fine tune the accessibility of individual features
> to maximize the user experiences for everyone."
>
> I agree and one of the things I'm advocating for is the inclusion of
> inclusive design in everything produced by teachers, faculty and students
> at
> the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. Part of the
> problem
> identified here is that we still think of inclusive education as having to
> be "accommodated" for rather than "this is how we do it." We need to ensure
> that all tools used in education are inclusive and that any document,
> multimedia project or software/application created by any student is
> inclusive in its design.
>
> It is only then that we will stop the retro fit cycle for any digital
> content or application, or service.
>
> This in turn will drive the creation of more inclusive technologies and my
> wishful thinking is that we'll look on this stage of digital evolution as a
> "dark age."
>
> http://karlencommunications.com/adobe/OntarioEducationAndAODA.pdf
>
> As long as we have to "retrain" graduates to produce accessible digital
> content and applications we'll be stuck in a retro fit cycle of
> accommodation rather than one of inclusive design by default. People
> working
> in the area of digital content and application design will continue to look
> on accessibility as an add-on which is part of the current problem.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
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