Re: [Air-L] Why aren't more websites accessible?
You might email this person -- Jon Gunderson -- he has taught courses in our faculty (Graduate School of Library and Information Science) on designing for usability and is disability services officer at U. of Illinois. https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/vita-long.html /Caroline ---- Original message ----
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:16:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Glen E. Farrelly" <glensleeo@yahoo.com> Subject: [Air-L] Why aren't more websites accessible? To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
I’m new to academic research and to this group, so forgive me if I’m not following conventions.
I'm in the process of submitting a master's level grant application to examine why more websites, specifically Canadian, are not made accessible for the visually impaired.
While I believe the perceived cost and effort to make websites accessible is a significant reason, I was hoping to find research into other factors. If anyone knows of any research in this area - or in ascertaining the degree of inaccessibility - I would greatly appreciate any tips, links or advice.
Thank you, Glen Farrelly Student, Royal Roads University / Web Producer Glen.farrelly@yahoo.com
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On 28/11/2007, Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@uiuc.edu> wrote:
You might email this person -- Jon Gunderson -- he has taught courses in our faculty (Graduate School of Library and Information Science) on designing for usability and is disability services officer at U. of Illinois.
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/vita-long.html
/Caroline
Jon Gunderson is quite active on the WebAim list, which you'd probably find useful. (http://www.webaim.org/discussion/) One thing that I think is useful about that list, is that they also consider the needs of all users - those that require screen reading technology for visual impairment are a pretty tiny percentage - when you consider those that need screen enlargement, appropriate contrast, dyslexic users etc., etc., If it's any consolation & it probably isn't, here in the UK, a survey about a year ago (I think for International Day of the Disabled person last year), found that the vast majority of Government Websites in the UK (and also EU) weren't fully accessible in one way or another. -- Emma Duke-Williams: School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator. New URL: Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
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