The Creative Access site has a lot to offer visitors as a solid, easily navigable web site. The site is equally effective in all browsers tested, so it looks like a lot of thought went into the testing process. The site looks almost exactly normal with images disabled, since regions with images have been provided with sensible and equivalent background colors.
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If you’ve been following the news, you know IBM bought Watchfire for their web security software. This stuff happens all the time and rarely are we directly affected. This time, though, we will feel the loss. Rather, anyone who used to use the Bobby “WebXact” accessibility evaluation tool will feel the loss. It’s a temporary condition, though, at least according to IBM.
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The Optimalworks site immediately impressed us with its crisp visual image and sense of purpose. The visuals were big, bold and clear with a large readable font size and good use of supporting images/icons — all of which contributed to a strong design that was both bright and cheerful. Then we switched images off and, to our surprise and delight, the site still looked good! We also noted the extensive meta text — another demonstration of good attention to detail on this site from the ground up. With the odd exception, keyboard navigation was an absolute breeze, thanks to the very clear onfocus link highlighting. No messing about with subtle changes here or unintuitive tab ordering either. The link highlighting hit us right in the eye (even on graphical links) and the tab order was exactly as expected given the visual display. All of which made navigating this site by keyboard a real no-brainer. All in all, the kind of keyboard friendly site that should be the norm — not the exception.
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AbilityNet’s latest State of the eNation Report focuses on social networking websites which, the report claims, are locking out disabled users.
Sites such as Bebo, Facebook, and MySpace have revolutionised online communication but millions of disabled people may not even be able to register - let alone participate - in the online communities that these sites offer. Yet disabled users may have the most to gain from social networking as, currently, they include some of the most socially excluded members of our communities.
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