This assessment is very simplistic and constitutes a basic preliminary review. It is not comprehensive nor exhaustive. I chose themes from the Free Theme Directory and searched for Web Accessible and Accessibility. I narrowed my selection by considering which theme would be easily customizable, have good contrast between foreground and background, have elements in a [...]
The new and beautified World Wide Web Consortium website is proof that it can be done. Those of us that visit that site regularly know how extensive the site is and a task this big is daunting. Nevertheless, the improvement is welcomed. Things to notice: It’s scalable width size, More breathable (meaning that there’s less [...]
It is more and more apparent that accessibility can be beautiful. I came across Accessibility in Focus, a website for an accessible web award. There was 4 finalist, one of them was the Salford City Council. A fairly large website. Its navigation is straightforward even if at first glance the site looks overwhelming. This site [...]
I was going to do an evaluation of an authoring tool, but the WAI have thought of it already at www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2002/tools. I found that the reviews were all a little outdated and I didn’t get a definite conclusion from any review. So I finally decided to go ahead and check out an authoring tool myself. [...]
The W3C has extensive information on how to properly evaluation a sites accessibility. Here are the underlining steps to ensure that your evaluation is full-proof: For a preliminary review, select a page that is representative of the whole site or that most people will see. Try to choose a page that has tabular data, images [...]
What are web standards? Simply put, they are a set of guidelines for web development and web designing. It represents the good practices of the profession. When I started creating websites I had no idea their were rules, but now that I know they exist and I know why I need to use them I [...]
