Designing for accessibility

Brian Lawlor — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:50:28 +0000

For those interested and committed to building and improving their sites for accessibility, there is a recently published, useful (and free) resource: Just Ask: integrating accessibility throughout design. Promoted today at the Web Standards Project, Just Ask has been very favorably reviewed by Accessify.com, and is also available in Spanish and Japanese. A great addition to the canon on design for accessibility. (And if you are interested in a good book on the technical aspects of web standards-driven accessibility, consider Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance.)

Free NN/g report on web accessibility for the disabled

Brian Lawlor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:06:51 +0000

Nielsen Norman Group, the consulting arm of Jakob Nielsen’s Useit.com web usability empire, has gotten the holiday spirit by making available via free download its 124-page report on Making the Web Easy to Use for Users with Disabilities. Originally published in 2001, the report is dated but is a worthy introduction and overview to critical web design issues affecting access by those using assistive technologies. Should this report pique your interest, you can find a more current, more broadly written, and technically more helpful canon in Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance.