It looks like WIU has taken a step towards improving web accessibility. At the IBHE‘s order, WIU has started a committee which has set forth some pretty admirable goals given the poor state of web accessibility here at WIU. I was reluctant to get involved at first–will this be another committee which meets once a month to do nothing? But now I am eager to get behind the mule and push, to make sure that it is not.
I am also working through some of my sites again and tweaking for accessibility. Around here, that involves link titles and a few other things. I need to do some testing of this WordPress theme with some of the folks at DSS. For quite a bit of my sites, I have a long way to go. Boo.
Around the web, this post by Cynthia Waddell has a good blow-by-blow of the recent ruling in NFB v Target.
A nice essay at A List Apart takes on the issue of user testing, or lack thereof, in web accessibility. Boscarol makes some generalizations that I’m uncomfortable with—extrapolating general rules from single use cases. That’s dangerous. However, in the discussion, Boscarol gets it right: user testing is critical, and even limited testing can demonstrate very, very interesting things about a site’s accessibility (or usability, for that matter).