Accessibility is law

Well in America at least you can be sued under the Americans with disabilities act if your website doesn't allow people with visual disabilities to read the content through a screen reader. The Target group was the first organisation to fall foul of this ruling.

I was at the d.construct conference in Brighton last week and Derek Featherstone gave a very interesting talk on accessibility issues in the web 2.0 world. He based his 45 minute presentation on the problems caused by the simplest form input field inputs such as login and search, which you can imagine is only the very tip of the accessibility iceberg.


Tags: Web2.0 Accessibility Target brand d.construct