Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Clagnut.com] clagnut - stick around why don't you: But it doesn’t just try to interpret Internet Explorer’s behaviour, it does its own thing too, and different versions of JAWS do it to varying degrees. So even if you’ve been good people and ensured your site works without JavaScript it might be your site still breaks in JAWS.
[Larsholst.info] Goodbye Yellow Right Double Angle Bracket | mono: Let's face it, the biggest move towards accessible web design for the blind would be an open source screen reader that was widely used by the blind, or Jaws being made available free to designers who wished to test their sites in it. At the moment, there is too much second-guessing in the absence of being able to directly test, just trimmings around the edges.
[Egov.vic.gov.au] eGovernment Resource Centre: Accessibility Articles: "Twenty four (24) European organisations from twelve (12) countries working in the field of Web Accessibility, together with the W3C/WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative), on Monday, April 28, 2003 have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the creation of the EuroAccessibility Project. The MoU sets out governing principles for their co-operation towards the goal of establishing a harmonised set of support services over Europe, which would include a common evaluation methodology, technical assistance, and a European certification authority for Web accessibility..."
[Bolton.ac.uk] eLaB - eLearning at Bolton: The Web Access Initiative of the The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a result of long protracted debate and discussions among professionals and web interested parties to establish a standard for international web page design. The guidelines published by this Initiative are, at present, probably the most comprehensive and authoritative standards that exist, and while they carry no formal authority or power of enforcement, they are increasingly recognised as the most likely way forward in terms of establishing quality criteria for an otherwise unregulated medium such as the Internet is at present.
The Web Standards Project: Please put your hands together for Derek Featherstone, one of the most articulate and committed accessibility advocates and for fellow BritPacker Jeremy (bringing DOM scripting to the masses) Keith. Both were highlights of the recent @media standards and accessibility conference. (via Cosmos)
GuyWeb.co.uk: Clark might not have had much to add to the whole CSS discussion but he was a very entertaining bloke. He certainly generated a few laughs as he dismissed accessibility and complicated code in favour of the notion of pleasing the client. (via Cosmos)
: Pig Work : Weblog of Freelance Designer Steven Clark aka Norty Pig, Hobart, Tasmania: But at the same time I don’t think there will ever be a perfect accessibility answer for all people using all browsers in all situations either. Elements like cognitive ability, familiarity with the language at hand, web experience and many other additional factors will eventually separate two otherwise identical people - one million the more so. (via Cosmos)
Pig Pen - its an adventure: In The State Of Accessibility In The Real World the well respected Richard Rutter from Clagnut puts forward his frustration at the current state of accessibility on the web. (via Cosmos)
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