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Top 5 web accessibility pitfalls

Followers of the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) working group and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group would have seen a number of emails recently on software packages that claim to be all-in-one web accessibility solutions.

While last month’s column highlighted some useful tools, there is no single tool that can provide a definitive evaluation of a website’s accessibility or make a website accessible.

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UK travel company websites fall short on basic accessibility

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An investigation into the accessibility of the top ten UK travel company websites has shown that none of these websites met the most basic level of accessibility, with Ryanair providing the poorest accessibility to customers.

Nomensa, a digital agency specialising in online user experience, web accessibility and web design, assessed two pages, the homepage and the customer support or help page from each website against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.

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W3C calls for review of WCAG supporting documents

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The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has announced a Call for Review of updates to two supporting documents for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. 

The draft documents being reviewed are:

These documents are not the WCAG 2.0 standard itself, but rather supporting documents to provide guidance to developers as to how the standards can be adopted.

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