Updates
Progress to date
Since the project started in May 2007, this is what we have been doing:
- Recruiting the project team (some of us were already on board; some of us have been recruited especially for the project)
- Developing this project website
- Promoting the project and recruiting participants
- Gathering profiles of participants
- Recruiting user testers with intellectual disabilities
- Planning the workshops
- Planning the initial interviews
Our next steps are to:
- Finalise workshop planning
- Carry out initial interviews
- Run the workshops
- Carry out further interviews
- Analyse and write up the data
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
