Involve Users in Your Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

Want to better understand accessibility issues and implement more effective accessibility solutions?
The W3C WAI Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) today published documents to help:
* Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/users/involving
* Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/users

The documents provide guidance on including real users, covering:
* How involving users early helps
* Finding a range of users
* Working with users
* Analyzing accessibility issues
* Drawing conclusions and reporting
* Note for usability professionals
* Combining user involvement with standards

We encourage project managers, designers, and developers of the following to read these documents:
* websites and web applications
* browsers, media players, and assistive technologies
* authoring tools such as content management systems (CMS), blog software, and WYSIWYG editors
* standards and policies on accessibility
* web technologies and technical specifications

See also the blog post:
* Discover new ways of thinking about accessibility
  http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/12/discover_new_ways_of_thinking.html

These documents were developed and updated by Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) as part of the WAI-AGE Project. WAI-AGE is a European Commission IST Specific Support Action, with the goal of increasing accessibility of the Web for older people as well as for people with disabilities. See: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/

Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.

Regards,
~Shawn Henry, W3C WAI, EOWG Chair


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Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
e-mail: shawn@w3.org
phone: +1.617.395.7664
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

Received on Wednesday, 9 December 2009 15:20:01 UTC