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atMedia: WCAG 2.0

Posted in Accessibility on: Thursday, June 15, 2006 by Paul Boag

Although there has been a lot of criticism of the WCAG 2.0 guidelines and I am still as confused about what they actually say, at least I can now see some hope for the future of accessibility.

the focus should be on making your site more accessible not covering the collective arse.

This session had a lot of back and forth over the pros and cons of the new guidelines but the underlying message is that we need to start looking beyond just checking the box.

As I have said in our podcast, accessibility should be more than just conforming to a set of guidelines. The message today was that you need to carefully consider your accessibility policy for each website you create. You need to balance accessibility with and consideration. You need to look at the requirements of your target and respond swiftly to comments from your .

A lot of organisations want to conform to a specific level purely to prevent themselves from being sued. However, as long as an organisation responds in a timely manner to complaints about inaccessible , they really are in no danger from disability discrimination legislation. The result is that the focus should be on making your site more accessible not covering the collective arse.

I was pleasantly surpised by this pragmatic, real world approach to accessibility. Most refreshing…

And Joe Clark’s article on A List Apart was only mentioned six times ;)

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Boagworld is produced by the web design agency Headscape founded by Marcus, Paul and Chris Scott. Headscape also has a number of other talented guys who blog. Check them out.

  • Craig Rowe is one of our amazing developers and writes some superb posts on everything from .net to AIR apps.

  • Ed Merritt is a Headscape designer who's blog contains examples of his work and a number of free Wordpress themes.

  • Dave McDermid is a Headscape developer who has an excellent blog. He blogs on everything from AJAX to security.

  • Rob Borley is one of our project managers and blogs regularly on client and project management issues.

  • Leigh Howells is our multimedia design guru (whatever one of those is). He blogs on a mixture of design and music.

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