help with disability requierments

hargi · 17 Jul 2007 at 17:40

Hi,
I have to give a short talk about how web pages have to meet the disablity and access requierments,
To be honest i dont know to much on this, other than using CSS and trying not to use flash. Is there anything important that i should include?
or any usefull sites.
Thanks in advance

paulhuk2 · 17 Jul 2007 at 17:42

w3 would be a good place to start

http://www.w3.org/

hargi · 17 Jul 2007 at 17:50

Would you say thatwww.hargitech.co.uk meets the requierments once i get content on the last few pages?.
Will read the w3.org site to.

meghatronic · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:09

hargi said:
Would you say thatwww.hargitech.co.uk meets the requierments once i get content on the last few pages?.
Will read the w3.org site to.

No. You fail from the onset for having no alt tags on images

hargi · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:30

cheers

Gman · 17 Jul 2007 at 19:14

also I believe that at the moment websites don't 'have' to meet the disability / accessibility requirements outlines by the W3C. If anything it's more of a guideline at the moment.

however there has been 1 or 2 cases where people have won in court regarding the usability of a website but that was only when the site was totally unusable from a visually impaired users perspective via the use of brail and screen readers. (think it was the Australian Olympics website)

but generally it's good practice to conform to the guidelines as sooner or later there's going to be some enforced law especially for business type sites.

Moredhel · 17 Jul 2007 at 19:32

Gman said:
also I believe that at the moment websites don't 'have' to meet the disability / accessibility requirements outlines by the W3C. If anything it's more of a guideline at the moment.

however there has been 1 or 2 cases where people have won in court regarding the usability of a website but that was only when the site was totally unusable from a visually impaired users perspective via the use of brail and screen readers. (think it was the Australian Olympics website)

but generally it's good practice to conform to the guidelines as sooner or later there's going to be some enforced law especially for business type sites.

the Disabilities Discrimination Act says that if your site offers a service then it must be accessible, which has been taken to mean meeting at least some of the WAI standards.

A good idea might be to search for people discussing SENDA (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Act), which is an even stricter law that schools / colleges / unis had to implement. There was a lot of discussion at the time as to the requirements etc. I'm sure there will still be whole sites dedicated to it floating around.

Noodles · 17 Jul 2007 at 19:59

http://www.hermish.com/check_accessibility_form.cfm

hargi · 18 Jul 2007 at 11:36

would using simpleviewer as a side to show photos,
break it as it requiers flash player?