Comments on: Time To Be Flexible http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327 Access to technology for all Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Brian Kelly http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-6433 Wed, 02 May 2012 16:00:45 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327#comment-6433 Back in August 2009 Gustaw Kon, in a criticism of the research community’s involvement in the development of more effective ways of addressing web accessibility issues, said: Gentlemen, if you have a solution, get on with it and provide it.

I’m please to say that since then the BS 8878 Web Accessibility Code of Practice has been published. This Code of Practice provides a tangible and implementable framework for web development work which has been influenced by work of the research community.

]]> By: paul canning http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-5426 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:37:35 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327#comment-5426 Great stuff.

In ‘implementing accessibility’ in government one of the things which just does not occur is actually engaging with disabled people.

As with user testing, meeting the audience has an amazing impact.

IMO ‘the disabled’ are another user group for websites and web-based apps. If viewed through a usability lense (as Jakob Nielsen argues) rather than a ‘special needs’, technical or – worse – legal one then neglect is near guaranteed to not happen.

]]> By: Gustaw Kon http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-5421 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:44:01 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327#comment-5421 How many papers have been published and, importantly, funded on accessibility? Mr. Kelly is the latest in a, doubtless, distinguished plethora of scribes. Again, the public sector “should” do something or other (inevitably in these difficult economic times). For the sake of capitalist balance let us add the imperative for the private sector. They all of them “should” and (perhaps?) “could” act to provide accessibility. But despite years of exhortation, the passing of laws, gallons of ink and excessive amounts of wasted money, I prophesy, with no risk of being wrong, that the same ineffective accessibility will be bemoaned by subsidised academics, ad infinitam. Gentlemen, if you have a solution, get on with it and provide it. If not, just accept that eutopia is “nowhere”. The resources saved by ending the verbal diarrhoea “could” be allocated to the provision of the best accessibility possible.

Gustaw Kon

]]> By: Gustaw Kon http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327&cpage=1#comment-5420 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:38:19 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=327#comment-5420 How many papers have been published and, importantly, funded on accessibility? Mr. Kelly is the latest in a, doubtless, distinguished plethora of scribes. Again, the public sector “should” do something or other (inevitably in these difficult economic times). For the sake of capitalist balance let us add the imperative for the private sector. They all of them “should” and (perhaps?) “could” act to provide accessibility. But despite years of exhortation, the passing of laws, gallons of ink and excessive amounts of wasted money, I prophesy, with no risk of being wrong, that the same ineffective accessibility will be bemoaned by subsidised academics, ad infinitam. Gentlemen, if you have a solution, get on with it and provide it. If not, just accept that eutopia is “nowhere”. The resources saved by ending the verbal diarrhoea “could” be allocated to the provision of the best accessibility possible.

Gustaw Kon.

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