Usability Testing of WCAG

Hello,

I understand from my colleague and list member Paul Booth that recently a
thread on this list discussed the need to formally evaluate the usability of
the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. On behalf of the Digital Media
Access Group, a project based in the Department of Applied Computing at the
University of Dundee, Scotland, I would like to express our interest in
being involved in carrying out such a project.

We currently offer a digital resource accessibility/usability auditing and
consultancy service, and have recently completed a project auditing
accessibility/usability levels of a number of web sites in the UK Higher
Education sector. We're also researching into how web resources can be most
effectively audited for accessibility and usability, and are due to present
a paper at the ACM Conference on Universal Usability 2000 in November on our
auditing methodology.

We recognise that the current form of the WCAG could yet be optimised to
explain accessibility issues and solutions to people looking for
information, whilst retaining the authority and unambiguity that defining
guidelines must obviously possess.

Please contact me at the address below if you'd like to discuss the issue
further.

Best wishes,
David Sloan  

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David Sloan
Digital Media Access Group
Department of Applied Computing
University of Dundee
DUNDEE
DD1 4HN
United Kingdom

tel +44 (0) 1382 345598
fax +44 (0) 1382 345509
email: dmag@computing.dundee.ac.uk
web: http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/projects/dmag/
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Received on Thursday, 19 October 2000 09:51:50 UTC