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June 30th, 2006

DTI website

Again this is something I saw on the WaSP site. In the past I did some work on some of the DFES sites and they had standards that we had to work to and we did mainly because it was something I was interested in and it was something that was becoming a bigger issue. The work I did was about two years ago. I remember they were going ...
accessibility, usability, html, css, web, design, standards
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June 30th, 2006

PAS78 download for free!

A mentioned this document a couple of months ago and mentioned that it cost some money to have a look at it. Well now it is available for free from the DRC web site. I found the link on Web Standards Project site. I have had a quick browse of it so far but I think it is something I will be browsing now and again to get a feel ...
accessibility, web, design
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March 8th, 2006

PAS 78

I haven't actually been able to find a copy of this yet but I think it looks quite important. I have had a look on the BSI site and found a launch event where you can get a copy of the document, it seems a bit mad that thay haven't made it available online at the same time. Just found this on the DRC site - seems they have ...
accessibility, usability, standards
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November 29th, 2005

Government sites ‘fail disabled’

Government sites ‘fail disabled’ – obivously there’s no ‘New Professionals’ working for the government. Don’t think these two count any more being at their peak in seventies – I’m sure they must have retired by now.
accessibility, usability
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April 21st, 2004

Websites awarded for excellence in accessibility

Websites awarded for excellence in accessibility – This is a bit mad as as far as I can tell the egg.com doesn’t even validate – it doesn’t have a dtd so the html may be vaild but who can tell. You can’t alter the text size either which is pretty basic for accessibility. In fact only one of the sites validates. I know validation doesn’t mean accessibility but ...
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