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25 September 2006

Global web celebrations under way

People around the world are coming together on Friday to celebrate the world wide web.
Susan Crawford, the founder of OneWebDay, said she wanted people to reflect on how the web had changed their lives.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/

Accessibility to direct the mainstream

Experiences and thoughts from the e-Access conference AbilityNet attended (and Robin spoke at) last week.
"The overall message from the conference is that accessibility should not be seen as a chore but should be seen as symbiotic, helping to create a better experience for us all."
http://www.it-director.com/

Landmark Court Case Sets Precedent In Accessibility For The Blind

The growing impact of the Target Lawsuit in America is discussed here.
"The lawsuit is setting a precedent for the e-commerce industry. Industry experts say it is going to change 'the way every corporation and designer approaches Web development in the future'."
http://www.bizreport.com/

Illinois web accessibility standards

Interesting to see how one state in America has handled this. It is a well laid out document.
The Illinois Web Accessibility Standards are designed to provide practical and specific guidance for the development of web sites, intranets, and web-based applications that are accessible to Illinoisans with disabilities.
http://www.illinois.gov/

Closed Captioning Hits Google Video

Google has begun providing closed captions for selected videos in its Google Video database, internetnews.com has learned.
http://www.internetnews.com/

Retail websites fail access test

Nomensa's latest study:
A survey of the UK's 30 most important retail websites shows that none of them meet minimum accessibility standards for disabled shoppers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Text-Resize Detection

When you design for the web, you don’t know what software people will use to experience your site, and you don’t know what capabilities your users (and their software) have. Flexible layouts and resizable type can eliminate a lot of worst-case usability and design scenarios, but it’s still extremely difficult to create page layouts that don’t break even if the user increases the type size by more than a few settings.
http://alistapart.com/

A survey of Browser Text Size settings

Summary of findings:
* 99.7% of visitors use default (Medium) text size settings.
* Approximately twice as many visitors (0.2%) increase their text size than decrease their text size (0.1%).
* Users with very low (640 x 480) or very high (larger than 1600 x 1200) screen resolutions are at least twice as likely to change their text size settings (compared to users with resolutions from 800 x 600 to 1280 x 1024).
http://www.clickdensity.com/

The 25 Worst Web Sites

From unforgettable flame-outs to some of the most popular destinations around, no one is safe from PC World's look at the world's dumbest dot-coms and silliest sites.
http://www.pcworld.com/

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