Archive for November, 2011

Accessibility Barrier Scores

November 22, 2011, filed under Accessibility, WCAG, Web; 40 Comments.

Many governments and organisations now require websites to be accessible, and when it comes to determining whether these requirements have been met, they often rely on recognised checklists of accessibility criteria such as WCAG 2.0 or Section 508. These checklists are a useful way of indicating whether a site complies with the required criteria. However, […]

Measuring accessibility

November 2, 2011, filed under Accessibility, WCAG, Web; 9 Comments.

There has been much discussion, and some arguments, about how to determine the accessibility of websites. Unfortunately, this is often polarised around two simplistic choices: A compliance/conformance based approach that usually involves a checklist of criteria; or, some form of user testing by people who have different disabilities and/or who rely on different assistive technologies. […]