Is your charity’s website well-designed and does it perform as well as it should? Here are eight simple tests to help you find out. None of these tests require you to understand web design but you may need to go back to your web designer to resolve any problems that you find. First, let’s check your site’s code for errors.
Blind people can use software to read aloud the content from websites but only if those websites are designed properly. A federal court judge in California has issued two landmark decisions against the Target Corporation, a retail company, because their website was inaccessible to blind people. Read the full article »
The website of the World Glaucoma Association was nominated by Web Pages that Suck as one of the worst in the world.
What’s doubly unfortunate is that glaucoma is a visual impairment and websites are supposed (and in many countries legally obliged) to be designed to meet the needs of disabled people.
This free booklet and CD is an invaluable, practical and simple introduction to web accessibility. Accessibility - making your website available to all - is good practice and a legal requirement in many countries. This publication tells you what UK law says, but its advice is equally relevant wherever you are in the world. I’d recommend that charities get one copy of this pack for themselves and give another to their web designer. Read the full article »
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