Web Site Accessibility Blog

Last week, I posted an article from WebCredible about the future of accessibility. Trenton Moss initiated a good start to a conversation that needs to happen in the accessibility and developer community about the co-existence of rich media, social media, and accessibility.

Interestingly, Alastair Campbell, on his blog, AlastairC, finds the post here on Accessibility blog and adds a significant amount of comments and opinion about it. As such, I feel as though I have to give his post notice, as it provides an interesting contrast to Trenton’s article. Alastair feels that there can be compatibility between rich media and accessbility, and provides many excellent examples of these applications.

Here are Alastair’s comments on seperate sites, but please go read the entire article:

Will separate sites be needed?

I don’t believe so. However, there is a compromise needed whilst we are waiting for screen readers to catch up. A Hijax application will work as a standard site when JavaScript is turned off. The problem is that screen reader users are generally on Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari, which have JavaScript.

Therefore there should be an option built into the application to easily allow people to effectively turn off JavaScript (i.e. an option on the site, not telling people to turn off JavaScript in their browser!).