Week 10: Course finish

This is the final week of the advanced HCCS course. On friday we will finish by making some links between accessiblity and usability, which should round things off well. The course has been a useful learning experience. My favourite area has definitely been multimodal technology and its application. The web accessibility aspects have been essential to me, for use in industry after my degree. Having nearly completed the accessiblity audit I can see how it may be tricky to maintain a unique personal style in developing websites, whilst keeping them fully accessible. Guidelines like WCAG 2.0 are restrictive web developers to some extent, but they are important because disabled people sahould have the same access to content as everyone else. Moreover as guidelines become more serious in the legal sphere, developers will have no choice but to comply. With luck the up and coming WCAG 2.0 guidelines will be more successful than its predecessor.