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January 31, 2008

With a giant finger wag, Simpleweb (a Web design agency in the UK) claims that 75% of local web design companies have inaccessible sites. It sounds like they used the W3C's validator to check for well-formed markup and used other online accessibility validators to confirm compliance with accessibility guidelines. If they simply took the automated results of the accessibility checkers, that could explain the high percentage of failure. Automated tools can be poor judges of accessibility. They can be used to identify areas that need further evaluation, but are not the final judge and jury. I hope Simpleweb was not too quick to accuse.


January 24, 2008

The recently launched AIA started its first initiative. Microsoft contributed their UI Automation framework to the effort. The specifications are downloadable for free. The last time Microsoft released something similar was with Windows 95.


January 16, 2008

Webcredible consultants analyzed 20 major UK retailer websites and found at least 35% of the sites were not acccessible. More specifically, the sites did not comply with the Disability Discrimination Act. The average score for the disability tests they ran on the sites was 57%. The best site, H Samuel, scored 76% and the worst site, Curry's, scored 34%.