Web AxeThe Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) Working Draft documents were updated 17 May 2007. These documents incorporate resolutions to comments from the 2006 Last Call Working Draft. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) encourages you to review the WCAG 2.0 Working Draft and submit any new comments. Please see the additional information in:
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Dennis and Ross analyze the web site of Computer Intelligence Associates, a company claiming to be web accessibility experts.
Download Web Axe Episode 48 (Site Analysis – Computer Intelligence Associates)
What’s the heck’s going on with WCAG 2.0? Last I heard turned out to be an April Fool’s joke!
Thankfully, Jared Smith of The Web Standards Project (and WebAIM) has interviewed Judy Brewer on the subject. Judy is the Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). WCAG 2.0 is apparently in the second stage of four. Although moving very slowly, it seems many of the large concerns of the development community are being address (such as the complex language of the first draft).
Here’s a detailed article from Karl Groves entitled Top 5 Roadblocks to Web Accessibility. He examines the following most common mistakes for an accessible web site:
Dennis and Ross discuss alternative text on the web, mostly the ALT attribute in detail. Also discuss alternative text for audio and Flash.
Download Web Axe Episode 47 (Alternative Text in Detail)