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Participant profiles

We finished recruiting participants in November 2007. Our aim was to recruit approximately 30 UK-based web designers, developers or editors with a spectrum of accessibility experience, freelance, employed and agency-based, working on all kinds of websites, including corporate sites, public sector and service sites, sites about specific events, or charity sites.

At the time of writing, we have recruited 33 participants for the main workshops. We are also offering a one day workshop to a further 10 participants who are newer to web design and development, or have less experience of accessibility.

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Some accessibility sites are downright ugly, but the problem lies with those sites’ designers and not with accessibility, which carries no visual penalty.

Jeffrey Zeldman, Designing with Web Standards, 2003

Although serving the needs of people with disabilities should of course be a concern, the far wider issue – that accessibility is a matter of usability – has rarely been discussed. As designer professionals, we should be designing our content so it is globally accessible and meets the needs of as many people as is possible and practical given our specific circumstances, regardless of their abilities or the type of device they choose to access the Web

Andy Clarke, Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design, 2006