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Thoughts on Physical vs. Web Accessibility

August 27th, 2010

I received an email from a friend who is attending a11yMTL, a conference about web accessibility. Mimi is a graphic designer, who happens to be a wheelchair user. As she knows I grew up in Montréal and have accessibility of both physical structures and the web at heart, she shared with me some of her thoughts. I asked her if I could publish her email here because these are powerful consideration.

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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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I Offer To Build An Accessible Website For The Nevada Blind Children Foundation

June 18th, 2009

It appears my previous post about the Nevada Blind Children's Foundation being "Flash only" made a lot of noise, and upset people. I had been planning to write a follow-up post. A recent post on Darrel Shandrow's blog prompts me to write this follow-up faster than planned!

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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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