- From: david poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:45:53 -0400
- To: "Andy Budd" <andy@message.uk.com>, "W" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Lots of disability experience whent into the development of the guidelines. Right now, peer review of wcag 2.0 is being conducted and anyone including experts and non experts are welcome to work to make them the best they can be. Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Budd" <andy@message.uk.com> To: "W" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 4:51 AM Subject: Re: Accessibility humanized Recently the UK Disability Discrimination Commission evaluated the accessibility of 1000 UK websites. http://www.drc-gb.org/publicationsandreports/report.asp They used a number of methods including bobby checks, expert reviews and real user tests. Interestingly they state that. "As many as 45% of the problems experienced by the user group were not a violation of any Checkpoint, and would not have been detected without user testing." and concluded that "It is clear that compliance with the technical guidelines and the use of automated tests are only the first steps towards accessibility: there can be no substitute for involving disabled people themselves in design and testing, and for ensuring that disabled users have the best advice and information available about how to use assistive technology, as well as the access features provided by Web browsers and computer operating systems." I'm personally interested in how the WAI guidelines were derived. Are they a result of comprehensive user testing, or simply recommendations from accessibility experts?
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