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The problem with ‘designing for the average user’ is that many users are decidedly non-average.
Many sites exclude such users, usually by accident. Those users make up around a fifth of your potential audience.
(Source: W3C statistics)
Communis Articles
Reach more people
Up to 13% of all users don't use javascript. Over 2 million PDA-phones were sold this year. Accessible web sites reach more of your audience. Watch the search engine rankings improve and the hits go up when all those people behind company firewalls, and those with higher privacy settings, PDA/mobile web users, and people with impairments can access your site. Get a bigger slice of the market.
How to Comply with the Law
The Disability Discrimination Act is already in force. Web sites are specifically included. What does the law say? Who is being taken to court for excluding people with disabilities? Here you can find out how UK and European law relates to accessibility on the web. Find out your obligations.
Best Practice, The Law and Your Web Site
In an update to our popular piece on 'How to Comply with the Law', we consider the various codes of best practice applicable to your web site, and also how changes in the law may now affect you. Read more on best practice.
From our Accessibility Field Notes...
Build the Perfect Skip Link
Our senior accessibility consultant, Liam McGee, delves into the surprisingly dangerous world of skip links.
Skip links — the saga continues
Fresh from recent user testing, senior consultant Paul Ratcliffe reveals more about our implementation of skip links.
Articles Elsewhere
Observing Users Who Listen to Web Sites
by Janice Redish & Mary Frances Theofanos, Society for Technical Communication
Web Accessibility and the Disability Discrimination Act
by Martin Sloan, the Journal of Information, Law & Technology
Beyond Accessibility: Treating Users with Disabilities as People
by Jakob Nielsen, Useit.com
Why Bobby Approved Is Not Enough
by Frank Gaine, Evolt.org
Accessibility: The Politics of Design
by Alan Herrell, aListApart
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