Site News
+July 2004: Bulletin site redesigned to be accessible.
Specialist accessibility consultant, Nick Freear has undertaken a major redesign of the E-Access Bulletin Web-site for its publisher, Headstar. The aim of the new site is to improve usability for all.
The site now meets all priority 1, 2, and in most cases, priority 3 of the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Pages make sense when read in non-visual environments, and key elements of the page like the site menu are clearly signposted. Users have a choice of graphical or large-text Style sheets for each page, and 'access-keys' are defined so that users can find the main pages on the site using only the keyboard.
More about the site design can be found here. We welcome feedback on the site — please contact the editor.
+June 2004: EAB set to revamp accessible newsletter standard.
The publisher of E-Access Bulletin, Headstar, is set to publish a revised version of its standard for accessible text email newsletters, the TEN Standard.
Derived from our work on this bulletin over five years, the Standard covers everything from how to number stories within a newsletter to preferred formats for web addresses and ways to divide the newsletter into sections.
For full details and a copy of the standard visit: www.headstar.com/ten .
We would very much like to receive further feedback on the standard, and to also invite individuals or organisations who may find it useful in their work to 'sign up' to the standard. This would merely entail letting us know you find it useful and endorse it, and also how you may be putting it to use (please email ten-standard@headstar.com).
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