Comments on: Introduction to Accessibility

By: Rory Fitzpatrick

Rory Fitzpatrick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:21:12 +0000

Woops! double posting... Wait, now its triple posting!

By: Rory Fitzpatrick

Rory Fitzpatrick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:19:54 +0000

@Clive: My personal opinion on this is that you should only be building accessible websites, irrespective of the budget. I’ve found the more experienced you get the easier it becomes, making a site accessible isn’t like an extra task, its just the way its done in the first place.
Sounds like your on the way there though, stick to CSS/standards and you’ll be laughing.
Obviously this becomes more complicated when you get into Javascript driven applications, for instance a modal dialogue also needs a static page with the same functionality. For a basic website though there shouldn’t be anything stopping you making it accessible whatever the budget.
@Paul: awesome stuff!

By: Rory Fitzpatrick

Rory Fitzpatrick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:52 +0000

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:53:46 +0000

Great presentation Paul, I'm looking forward to more in the future.

By: Dinu

Dinu — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:12:56 +0000

Great stuff Paul. Looking forward to more of these.

By: Mike Reynolds

Mike Reynolds — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:49:40 +0000

Greetings Clive. I’ll be interested to hear Paul’s opinion on this. My own two bits on this would be to do things like:
* Make sure XHTML validates
* Use descriptive ALT tags and TITLES
* Avoid hiding content in Flash
I’m sure I’m missing a few good ones. This question is very relevant to me so thank you for asking it.

By: Clive Walker

Clive Walker — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:31:49 +0000

Paul. Nice presentation. More please. I have a question about low-budget websites and how you would approach web accessibility in this scenario. I understand about the 'bare minimum' and 'laying a solid foundation' and I try and build websites using CSS, web standards etc. However, most of my clients have very small website budgets (I'm talking £500 to £1000 here) and doing a lot more than this is often a problem. I appreciate that Headscape's clients probably have higher budgets but do you have specific web accessibility advice for low budget websites?

By: paul Boag

paul Boag — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:30:59 +0000

@Martijn I am sure there will be more. I think that whenever I give a presentation I would like to reproduce it like that.

By: Martijn van der Ven

Martijn van der Ven — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:55:04 +0000

Great simple view of what’s going on Paul. This should clear things up for a lot of people.
Any chances on you doing more of these presentations? A whole serie might be to much, but a few more for the loyal fans?
Vimeo made it fully blend in, got to take a look at them, they even hid my mouse pointer!
On a side, I couldn’t stop wondering. What font is that? ;)

By: Mike Reynolds

Mike Reynolds — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:40:16 +0000

As always, great job Paul.