Good point. shame the RNIB web site is itself inaccessible to many users of
screen reader software (I know, 'cause the blind person I work with on
accessibility for my flagship site tells me so. She's mentioned it to the
RNIB several times, but they don't seem remotely interested in doing
anything about it).

Even worse, the RNIB offers a kitemark for sites they've audited as being
accessible - and for users of HAL screen reader (crap, buit some people use
it. Why? WEll, why do some people use PCs, others Macs, other Linux...)
can't access those sites either, so the RNIB's bad practise is spreading
through the web.

If anyone's interested I offer accessibility consultancy ;-)

Ian W



----- Original Message -----
From: "stephen RAdams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: [ cf-dev ] Website accessibility in the UK


Recently the RNIB said that they were looking at about 1000 websites
which they believed to discriminate again partially sighted or blind
people. So it looks as though it's a good time to start looking into how
we can make thee websites we work on more accessible.

There is a great article on the A List Apart website about how to make
our sites more accessible, might be well worth looking into this.

The address is http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessuk/

Stephen Adams


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