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Read about WCAG (http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag), that's what you need to follow to make web sites accessible, not markup val
by embplat 14y ago
Read about WCAG (http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag), that's what you need to follow to make web sites accessible, not markup validation, which really means "jack shit".
Visual impairment does not necessarily equal total blindness. Accounting for text size, contrast level, etc. is a lot to consider. AA conformance level (middle level, so to speak) is very hard to achieve.
- nness 14y agoThe Australian government made WCAG 2.0 a mandatory requirement of all government sites. Many claim to conform to the Double-A requirement, but very few bodies do accreditation and the standard itself is almost incomprehensible. A List Apart did a pretty good article on the issues with WCAG 2.0 in 2006: "To Hell with WCAG 2" http://www.alistapart.com/articles/tohellwithwcag2 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/tohellwithwcag2
- silktide 14y agoMany web devs use the W3C validator and assume the green tick means it's completely accessible. But they can only check for so much, which makes it almost useless. There's no substitute for actual user testing
- embplat 14y agoThe Canadian government is in the same boat. In fact, they are offering an open source framework that is modern, responsive and complies with WCAG requirements: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew
- embplat 14y agoHere's a Wired article on this subject from today: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/wet/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/wet/