Web Accessibility Links
People considering learning more about online web accessiblity should have a look at 456 Berea Street blog written by Roger Johansson and the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). These sites both outline the importance of website accessibility for the internet.
Below are more resources that will be relevant to website accessibility:
- w3c Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.0 - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
- w3c HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/
- WebAIM Creating Accessible Macromedia Flash Content - http://www.webaim.org/techniques/flash/
- Australian Internet Industry Association Web accessibility online resources - http://www.iia.net.au/accessresources.html
- Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Website: WWW Disability Rights - http://www.humanrights.gov.au/disability_rights/webaccess/index.htm
- w3c XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
- w3c XHTML Markup Validation Service - http://validator.w3.org/
- w3c CSS Markup Validation Service - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
[…] Doing a simple design for a website must meet compliance rules for Accessibility under the Australian Disability act. Failure to do this recently saw a website being successfully sued for failing this compliance, and had to fork out around $50,000 in settlements. (Have a on Web Accessibility Links) Imagine the scenario for doing an ecommerce website and your shopping cart software miscalculated a cost causing a loss of 10% per transaction. Over a year the website operated not realizing that the website is causing a loss to the business. What happens when the company suddenly realizes this and factors this loss to be at $30,000? Where do you think you stand with that company? You may be successfully sued by that company for a loss of business, and quite often that loss of business may be more than you were actually paid. […]
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