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I Nearly Killed Myself - Accessibility Hazards On Campus

November 10th, 2009

I nearly killed myself this afternoon. Newish construction, flight of 4 steps, all concrete. But between the sun, and the angle I'm at, sitting in a wheelchair, I didn't see they were steps until I was nearly falling down these steps! I'm thinking, someone who has vision impairment would have had even more trouble than me seeing the steps.

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Paralympics NZ - When Web Professionals Don't Do Their Job Right

July 20th, 2009

It seems wrong that a disability-related organisation would have a website that is not accessible. One really shouldn't cut out their primary market. It tends to happen when the organisation relies on "professionals" who don't really have any idea what they are doing. And the organisation just knows that they want a website. Often, they don't even know enough to realise they should ask about accessibility.

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Brush Off From NZ Minister of Transport

July 8th, 2009

Back in February 2009, I wrote to the New Zealand Minister of Transport to complain about a couple of disability/accessibility related issues. I finally just received a "proper" response from the Minister, although I think the answer is a cop-out, and a brush-off.

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Lack of Accessibility Symptomatic of Something Else?

June 14th, 2009

Someone pointed me to the Nevada Blind Children's Foundation's Website this morning, with a single question: "What do you make of this?". So I went to the site. And the words failed me. I couldn't quite believe what I saw. The entire site is one big Flash object. You don't get much LESS accessible than that.

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Web Accessibility and Content Management Systems

October 28th, 2008

Abstract

Web accessibility is an issue that is being spoken about more and more, yet very few Free Open Source Software (FOSS) Content Management Systems (CMS) are truly accessible. A growing number of countries are adopting legislation and regulations requiring a variety of websites to be accessible. Further, commercial interests suggest that a website that is  fully accessible and usable by all visitors would increase revenues. This paper will review the basic concepts of web accessibility and discuss the challenges of implementing accessibility into existing CMS, using Mambo CMS as a case study.

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