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Five Most Common Accessibility Errors

Friday, May 23, 2008

In the blog post Web Accessibility - The Power of Five, E-Access Bulletin Live reports on a web accessibility study completed by the Society of IT Management (Socitm). The study cites the five most common web accessibility errors, which reportedly make up 76% of all website accessibility failures.

1. no alternative text for images
2. inappropriate use of JavaScript
3. errors in simple data tables
4. errors in complex data tables
5. use of features with a lack of accessible alternatives

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Writing for Accessibility Article

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

In his article Writing for Accessibility, Joe Dolson explains that accessible copy is more than making non-textual elements available, it's also about the main content! He continues to explain how tone and puncuation are very sensitive and important issues when writing for accessibility. Joe suggests:

• Keep your sentences on the short side
• Avoid excessive parenthetical statements
• Avoid excessive subclauses
• Read the sentence without giving any particular emphasis to the terms and see how easy it is to understand the statement

Related links:

• Screen Readers lack emphasis
• Designing for Screen Reader Compatibility
• Fangs, the screen reader emulator

Labels: article, cognitive, screenreader

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To learn more about Dennis Lembree, the founder and main host of Web Axe, visit his web site at www.DennisLembree.com.