I wanted to call our W4A paper ‘Define Accessibility!’ as both a challenge and a call, but I was overruled so it’s actually called ‘Understanding Web Accessibility and Its Drivers’. Here’s a sneaky peek at the abstract ahead of time!
It seems to me we just can’t put our finger on a concise collection of knowledge and thought surrounding a scientifically valid corpus of testable understanding. Accessibility research is spread out across many domains, there is no generally accepted definition, and the guidelines and standards which are collected (often not by the research community) are to a large scale anecdotal.
This year the W4A be running a joint W4A WWW 2012 panel on accessibility and its definition at WWW 2012. This will be on Wednesday the 18th at WWW2012 but will be free entry to W4A Pass holders.
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Regular readers will have noticed a lack of posts in February. February was a crazy busy month because I was trying to get my new final year module up and running. The module is titled ‘User Experience from 30,000ft’ and the materials are presented as Open Courseware.
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