Accessibility Field Notes

A recent post to the Guild of Accessible Web Designers’ email list asked about the best way to make an existing archive of PDF documents accessible. Here’s what we replied: It’s likely that the pdfs were not constructed with accessibility in mind, so won’t be taking advantage of even the limited accessibility features of the [...]

Interesting developments this month in the world of accessibility legislation. The 25 European Commission member states and nine accession countries all signed up to the “Internet for all” action plan this month. The Commission is studying the possible introduction of mandatory accessibility standards in public procurement, to be brought in by 2010 as well as [...]

Writing accessible content is in most cases no different to writing good content for the general user. Therefore it may be useful to lay out what we at Communis think makes for great web writing. Write for your audience: who is likely to be reading the page? Make sure that you are writing for them. [...]