Today I've been lucky to attend one of AbilityNet's courses on Web Accessibility. Jon, Robin, and Johann all presented topics in the areas of their expertise. I learned lots of stuff!
Some of the stuff presented I had some knowledge of, mostly from my Human Computer Interaction course during the first semester. However, AbilityNet's hands-on approach was invaluable to understanding accessibility better.
It's important to follow the guidelines. Not all of them, though. Such guidelines as WCAG 1.0 could be out of date, and not reflective of the real importance of some of the accessibility features. Reading the guidelines can be a tedious task, due to their complexity. So, thanks to Jon, I've got them nicely summed up in my head, and ready to study them in more detail.
Disabled user testing should be a vital part of designing for accessibility. Observing Robin use the screen reader software and Johann use the magnification software was most convincing of that fact.
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