Talk:Web accessibility

This article has been moved from the blindness page, since it has little to do with the condition of sight-loss. Web accessibility needs a lot of help though, so please feel free to add constructively. Kael 00:21, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Estimate of date of publication of WCAG2 - "baseless speculation"?

The estimated date removed by Vidook is the one given out by Judy Brewer of the WAI and by the working group undertaking the creation of WCAG2. -- DMS (talk) 00:35, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very glad to hear that. I have previously looked for such info and been unable to find any. Is her comment online somewhere? If so, please do add the info back in with a reference to it. --Vidook 07:41, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Removed disability item

I removed the following item from list of disability types:

"* non-native speakers of the website's language(s) (including users of sign languages)." --ChrisWinter 18:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

this point could really be in there because it states in the WCAG 1.0: They may not speak or understand fluently the language in which the document is written. I think it would be better to change the term "disabilities" to the terms used in WCAG people that operate in different context than the majority

Moebiuz

Alternative browsers

Point for Discussion: As well as accessibility features for the mainstream browsers, should we add a further section listing common, dedicated disabled friendly browsers; I'm thinking specifically of pwWebSpeak (which I personally use) or others listed on the

RNIB Web Browsers Page (or simply directly reference this page)? --Cruddy 22:46, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External links cleanup

I took a stab at cleaning up some of the external links that appeared extraneous and/or in violation of WP:EL & WP:SPAM. Looks like a great deal more could be done given how many related articles are are available in Wikipedia, each with it's own list. --Ronz 14:55, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the links going to the site http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/ are looking like spam to me, too. Shouldn't they be removed?

Moebiuz 13:09, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I recently added WebAIM.org to the list of resources for developers, and was told that this was not appropriate, which left me a bit confused. They are a non-profit, university-based organization with tutorials, a respected accessibility discussion forum, and articles on the subject. I am not affiliated with them (though I was in the past), and have no agenda, except to make the resource available to people through wikipedia. If the concern is that they offer web accessibility services, I suppose I might understand the root of the objection, but I would disagree that they are an inappropriate resource here. They are as appropriate as any advocacy organization is, of which there are already several listed in the links. --Tw33dl3bug 18:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm for trimming this list down much further. Remember, this is an encyclopedia article, not a how-to. --Ronz 01:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I trimmed it down, though I'm not particularly happy with the results. I'd prefer just a few links that provide lots of quality information including their own lists of links to related sites. --Ronz 19:31, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The list of resources for developers, as it is now, makes it appear as though the only type of disability is blindness. The organizations listed are good ones, but they are advocacy organizations for only one type of disability. I had no objection to Knowbility or accessify or webaim or any of the others like that, because they are the sites that developers really go to. The blindness-specific advocacy sites are not really for developers. They're for people who are blind, or for people who are interested in blindess-related political issues. I think the items that belong there would be the W3C site, webaim, accessify, and other similar sites that include a broad spectrum of information about all kinds of disabilities. See, for example, http://webaim.org/articles/ Tw33dl3bug 04:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

UK Pas 78

Since there's already a sentence on Pas_78 with a link to the article, I didn't see need for the addition of specifics from these guidelines in this article. Perhaps they could fit in the Pas_78 article? --Ronz 15:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ronz. I'll rehash this to include it in the article. Regards. Abilitynet 15:41, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External links to tools

The link to the Lynx view tools that used to point to pizzaseo.com is to a tool that seems currently partially broken (although the link is not broken, the tool produces garbage output when used to test some sites). For this reason I replaced the link with one pointing to the Lynx view tool at yellowpipe which appears to be reliable. If there any problems are discovered with these tools, please comment on them here.

OK, I will check it, as I jave just used the tool for few sites and it worked correctly. What was the error you were getting? --dusoft 19:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aging is not a disability

Aging in itself is not a disability, though it certainly correlates with many deficiencies and disabilities. The article already lists specific needs to address. "Aging" is not a specific and listing it implies that there are other needs not already listed. --Ronz 20:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]