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Nicole Posts: 2830 Joined: 9/15/2004 From: Nambucca / Kempsey, Australia Status: offline	Accessible Web Content among UK SME's. - 7/2/2006 8:03:53 Interesting document I've read this evening on the acceptence of web design standards and accessible web content among UK small businesses. http://andyhiggs.co.uk/dissertation/index.htm I'm not sure that the actual participant numbers in the survey are appropriate to come to the conclusions he has, but it's very interesting nonetheless. Nicole _____________________________


Tailslide Posts: 5972 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: Accessible Web Content among UK SME's. - 7/2/2006 8:25:05 It's an excellent article that one - I linked to it in the Useful Accessibility thread a couple of weeks ago: http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/fb.asp?m=310678 Poor bloke must have had a massive bandwidth problem - it's been posted all over the place (quite rightly!) but I bet he gets a good mark! _____________________________ "My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it" Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Blood, Sweat & Rust - A Land Rover restoration project (in reply to Nicole)


jaybee Posts: 14121 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Accessible Web Content among UK SME's. - 7/2/2006 16:14:38 Anyone mailed him about the spelling mistake in para 2? _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to Tailslide)


Nicole Posts: 2830 Joined: 9/15/2004 From: Nambucca / Kempsey, Australia Status: offline	RE: Accessible Web Content among UK SME's. - 7/2/2006 17:32:29 ...there's more than just the typo in Para.2. Sorry I missed it when you posted the link 2 months ago Tail....you were quick off the mar posting that, it'd only been out a month! I found it interesting for a few reasons, firstly that he says he's the first to have undertaken this kind of research which may well be true but surely some of those accessibility organisations should've done this before. And not only in the UK but world wide with a larger business and designer sample too. Before reading it i'd have thought that sole responsibility should lay with the designer, and raving read it I still feel that way but can also appreciate the other arguements. And something which I find annoying yet it's inferred in some ways early in the piece, that accessibility costs more, my client won't buy it, that kind of arguement from some web designers. Anyway I found it to be a good read. Nicole _____________________________ (in reply to jaybee)

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RE: Accessible Web Content among UK SME's. - 7/2/2006 18:44:50

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Before reading it i'd have thought that sole responsibility should lay with the designer, and raving read it I still feel that way but can also appreciate the other arguements.

I was at a meeting a couple of months ago with someone from the DRC (Disability Rights Commission), and specifically asked who the responsibility for accessibility was with, the designer or the client. She she that the designer's only responsiblity is to inform the client about the accessibility requirements - from then on it's the client's responsiblity.

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And something which I find annoying yet it's inferred in some ways early in the piece, that accessibility costs more, my client won't buy it, that kind of arguement from some web designers.

It's only more expensive (unless you're going for triple AAA etc. with bells and whistles) if you don't know what you're doing and have to retrofit a site. Built it in from the start and the extra cost is negligible.

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