IBM have developed a JAVA tool called aDesigner for web designers that lets you ensure that pages pages are accessbile and usable to the visually impaired. A review of the …
See your website as a colour blind user
37 Signals comment on a tool which converts your webpage design as if you were colour-blind. www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000106.php There are some interesting links and comments and useful resources there, and on …
User Centered Design for Gov portals article
Digital Web magazine have posted a new feature titled ‘User-Centered Design for Large Government Portals’. The article looks at accessbility and also section 508 ::: www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2003-01b.shtml
The US disability act in 2001
An interesting article on Accessiblity Standards By Mark Gibbs in ‘Network World Fusion’. The article comments on the US dissability act put forward in 2001 ::: www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/web/2001/00948166.html
Related Accessibility Links: [1] The
Related Accessibility Links: [1] The Access Board ::: www.access-board.gov [2] Section 508: The Road to Accessibility www.section508.gov [3] Section 508 Standards ::: www.section508.gov/final_text.html [4] Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) ::: www.arnet.gov/far/authority.html …
A WebReference.com feature which looks
A WebReference.com feature which looks at ‘Accessibility for All?’. A look at the accessibility of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic website ::: www.webreference.com/new/020122.html#feature
Create Online’s big issue on Accessibility
Create Online’s big issue focuses on Website Accessibility. Access for all; able and disabled people. While the new media industry talks up 3D, video and other visual forms, how are …