- From: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@sonic.net>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:02:25 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, A couple of people from CHI-WEB and I've been having a!= NULLPT off-list discussion. Some questions have come up concerning cost effectiveness, the recent Jakob Nielsen report and reasoning for a single version of a web page. I said I would post the questions on some lists and pass them by some "lead users" (disabled people who work in technology outside of the disabled world) and then post some answers to CHI-WEB. Please let me know if you have any answers to the questions. Thanks, Scott QUESTIONS: 1. Has any experimentation been done to get a sense about how much longer it takes a developer to learn accessibility issues and create a web page which can be considered accessible? For example, one experiment could be take two web page designers who are equally skilled in HTML and give them each the same assignment. Then, in addition, give one of them the accessibility guidelines with addition direction that the web page the person creates must meet the guidelines. Finally time how long it takes each web page designer to complete the assignment and track what additional resources were needed to be brought in. 2. The Jakob Nielsen report brings up the question to what degree are the various efforts resulting in improvements in web page accessibility. What is the trade-off between amount of effort being used nationally and amount of actual improvement of web page accessibility? 3. Are there estimates of resources being used towards web page accessibility, including guidelines, education about guidelines, guideline consultants, implementation of guidelines, web page accessibility testing, development of special functionality in browers, etc? 4. How are the results of Jakob Nielsen's report being used to evaluate the efficacy of the guidelines? What other research is being planned to determine how much improvement in web page accessibility will be achieved by the guidelines? 5. What testing of alternative approaches have been done to find the most cost effective approach to web page accessibility? 6. There is the perception that Braille representation of information should be seen as being as equally valuable/important as print representation of information. Could not this be applied to multiple versions of the same web page where each is seen as equally valuable?
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