Friday, October 31, 2008

Web Accessibility Initiative

The topic of accessibility of ALD's catalog came up at our last Interest Group meeting. I came across a website of a group that is working on recommendations to improve web accessibility for people with disabilities. Some of it is rather technical, but some of the recommendations are understandable even for non-techies. Take a look here http://www.w3.org/WAI/

1 comment:

Richard Lyda said...

Thanks a lot for the link, Eleanor. As another follow up to the conversation, the New York Public Library's info on the subject can be found at this URL:
http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/xhtml/accessibility.html

Also, here is the citation for the article we discussed:

Blansett, Jim. Digital Discrimination. Library Journal; 8/15/2008, Vol. 133 Issue 13, p26-29, 4p