- From: Geoff Deering <gdeering@acslink.net.au>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:07:20 +1000
- To: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@sidar.org>
- Cc: "MGV" <tagi11@cox.net>, "Shelley Boden" <shelleyboden@enableuk.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Yes, there is maybe two separate case studies to look at like this; 1) Sites that are designed properly from the ground up to meet the full potential of universal accessibility. 2) Sites that try to address accessibility and web standards through a retrofit engineering approach. I'd put Amazon in the second category. I think both cases studies are interesting. Actually, I feel where there is some interesting work in this area is in the online banking sector. Some banks have got such a strong backlash from customers because of inaccessible sites that they have really gone back to the drawing board to take a more universal approach. It has proved too costly for them in customer dissatisfaction to do otherwise. I know one of my banks finally moved to remove almost all images and just provide HTML/CSS/DOM based interface. It was a big improvement. I don't know how accessible it is, haven't really looked, but I did send them an email congratulating them on the improvement and strategy. Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Charles McCathieNevile Amazon has a version of their site that was apparently meant to be more useful from small portable devices - http://www.amazon.com/access - which was discussed on this list a while ago. It doesn't conform to anything as "advanced", as WCAG double-A. Despite meeting a couple of important priority 3 checkponts it misses some priority 2's and at least one p1, based on a 3-minute "quick check". But by stripping the site down to its bare essentials it is a huge improvement for a number of users. cheers Chaals On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 10:33 Europe/Zurich, Geoff Deering wrote: > I would expect that Shelley is looking for examples where the > accessibility component has been addresses as a primary concern in the > design. > > Geoff
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