- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:02:48 +0000
- To: WAI Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- CC: Meliha Yenilmez <melihayenilmez@yahoo.com>
boaz sasson wrote: > > To know if your site is accessible it needs to be checked against the > checklist, this is something you can do alone, or hire a consultant like > me to do. > The checklist doesn't tell you whether it is accessible, only whether it passes a certain level of the WCAG guidelines. Even then, I believe there are still a lot of subjective items in the checklist, and there should be. To find out if it is actually accessible, you need to find people with lots of different disabilities and perform a usability survey on them, allowing them to use their own browsers and any assistive technology that they use. You should also include people who don't claim any disability, because a site that is not easy to use by "normal" users is not really accessible. There is no, simple, prescriptive, formula for determining accessibility. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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