TY - JOUR
T1 - Accessibility 2.0: next steps for web accessibility
AU - Kelly, Brian
AU - Sloan, David
AU - Brown, Stephen
AU - Seale, Jane
AU - Lauke, Patrick
AU - Ball, Simon
AU - Smith, Stuart
PY - 2009/1
Y1 - 2009/1
N2 - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) was established to enhance the accessibility of Web resources for people with disabilities. In this article we argue that although WAI's advocacy work has been very successful, the WAI approach is flawed. Rather than WAI's emphasis on adoption of technical guidelines, the authors argue that the priority should be for a user-focused approach, which embeds best practices through the development of achievable policies and processes and which includes all stakeholders in the process of maximizing accessibility. The article describes a Tangram model, which provides a pluralistic approach to Web accessibility, and provides case studies that illustrate use of this approach. The article describes work that has informed the ideas in this article and plans for further work, including an approach to advocacy and education that coins the term Accessibility 2.0 to describe a renewed approach to accessibility, which builds on previous work but prioritizes the importance of the user.
AB - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) was established to enhance the accessibility of Web resources for people with disabilities. In this article we argue that although WAI's advocacy work has been very successful, the WAI approach is flawed. Rather than WAI's emphasis on adoption of technical guidelines, the authors argue that the priority should be for a user-focused approach, which embeds best practices through the development of achievable policies and processes and which includes all stakeholders in the process of maximizing accessibility. The article describes a Tangram model, which provides a pluralistic approach to Web accessibility, and provides case studies that illustrate use of this approach. The article describes work that has informed the ideas in this article and plans for further work, including an approach to advocacy and education that coins the term Accessibility 2.0 to describe a renewed approach to accessibility, which builds on previous work but prioritizes the importance of the user.
KW - contextual design.
KW - people with disabilities
KW - Web accessibility
KW - guidelines
KW - WCAG
KW - WAI
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=61449103597&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/journal-access-services-2009/
UR - http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908810941~db=all
U2 - 10.1080/15367960802301028
DO - 10.1080/15367960802301028
M3 - Article
SN - 1536-7967
VL - 6
SP - 265
EP - 294
JO - Journal of Access Services
JF - Journal of Access Services
IS - 1 & 2
ER -