After a week’s break, we continued the course by looking at accessibility audits. Carina and Mike gave a presentation where they explained the key issues. They also showed us a real example from AMEX and the WCAG 1 guidelines. We recently found out that our first assessment would be to undergo an accessibility study into 5 websites. I would have liked to look at poker software as it is one of my interests and some are clearly more accessible than others without even applying any AX tools. However since they aren’t strictly speaking websites (despite communicating through the web and having website-like features); I will have to find something else.
I may look into shopping websites, since I do a lot of shopping online and am sure that plenty of disabled people must do as well, given that urban spaces in shopping areas are often not designed with the disabled user in mind. It is important that these websites are made fully accessible for disabled users, as often they are home bound and require the service even more than normal users. I will definitely use the WCAG 2.0 guidelines that come into place in December, since I want to learn the guidelines that will be used in industry by the time I complete my degree. WCAG 2.0 consists of four main principles; ‘Perceivable’, ‘Operable’, ‘Understandable’ and robust; and 12 main guidelines (with sub-guidelines) under these principles. The study will require some assistive accessibility technology to test all the guidelines and these should be available for free online.
No comments:
Post a Comment