Often, when working to promote accessibility of the digital environment, we look to the physical environment for comparisons and analogies. A PhD study at the School of Architecture here in Dundee has made me realise just how many parallels there are in the challenge of raising the profile of accessibility both amongst architects and amongst web and software developers.
January 21, 2010
Accessibility for Architects, Accessibility for Web designers
Posted by David Sloan under Accessibility and Usability | Tags: accessibility, advocacy, aesthetics, built-environment, design |Leave a Comment
November 15, 2009
Web accessibility surveys – results are frequently disappointing
Posted by David Sloan under Accessibility and Usability | Tags: accessibility, evaluation, research, surveys, web |[5] Comments
A recent exchange on Twitter has motivated me to write about the contribution published surveys on web site accessibility make towards understanding and addressing the problems that hold back web accessibility. I’ve read, and continue to read, many, many papers presenting the results of surveys of web sites, and I think we need surveys to look beyond just the data and instead delve more deeply into why the results are as they are. We’ve gone way beyond the point where a paper simply reporting that a study of x web sites from y sector revealed ‘disappointing’ levels of accessibility provides anything more than a minor contribution. Surveys need to look at process not product.
