Posts Tagged ‘accessibility’

Recent reads - accessibility

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Web accessibility myths (Ian Pouncey)

“…open content that is inaccessible to 50% of people is better than content that is never published. Ideally it is published with a license that allows others to take it and convert it to different forms which may be accessible, but this isn’t possible if it only exists in a file on someone’s desktop.”

Testing for Accessibility (The Pennsylvania State University)

Suggested protocols and tools for testing web sites for accessibility.

[Draft] Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites (W3C)

Advice from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative on how to approach companies with inaccessible web sites and the type of information those companies may need in order to help them make their web sites more accessible.

Skittles unscripted

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

While twitter fills up with #skittles, I might as well fill up my new blog with skittles tags…

I thought it might be fun to see what a javascript-disabled browser sees at skittles.com and it was worse than I imagined - a hybrid mess:

skittles.com with javascript disabled

skittles.com with javascript disabled

And as predicted, the product’s wikipedia page is now semi-protected:

semi-protected skittles wikipedia page

semi-protected skittles wikipedia page