Re: FN-FORUM: Making accessible websites

date posted 18th February 2004 20:53

I've been doing a huge number of accessiblility evaluations on sites
recently, and what it basically boils down to is - if you can read and
navigate the site in Lynx, then you're mostly there. Just watch out
for images that convey vital information, javascript based menus/auto
submitting forms, flash navigation and so on. The rest is common
sense; stylesheets that dont used fixed pixel fonts, good contrast
etc.

I seem to recall that the RNIB has some good info, just just have to
search, same with w3.org - you need to have a trawl around a fair bit,
but it's all in there.
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp is your friend.

-- Richard
http://www.rwatt.co.uk

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 7:59:46 PM, you wrote:
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LP> Hi all,

LP> I've been asked to make a proposal for a website for the disabled.

LP> Can someone who has done this before give me an indication on how much
LP> more work, on average, it is to make the site accessible?

LP> After looking at what they need doing, I am reckoning it would take me
LP> about three to four days to create the site in CSS and XHTML, giving
LP> about twenty screens of content.

LP> How much time, on average, should I add on top for making the content
LP> accessible for visually impaired people? is there more to it than
LP> simply having a logical layout and making sure all my ALT and TITLE
LP> tags are in place?

LP> I had a browse on the RNIB website, but couldn't find any suitable
LP> information. (and I'm not sure I want to buy the £20 accessibility
LP> pack before I've got the job ;-)

LP> This is quite exciting as I've been wanting to do a site like this for
LP> some time now :-)

LP> Many thanks,
LP> Luke

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