Accessibility Study , Why we all fail ?

About this Work

2009-04-02T22:21:00.001-07:00

This work is being done as part of Masters Degree thesis being done by me (Jagat Jasjit Singh) at Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Guru Nanak Dev University , India The work is being done under guidance of following Professors Dr. Karanjeet Singh Kahlon Professor and Head Department of Computer Science and Engineering Dr. Hardeep Singh Professor , Department of Computer

Advantages of Implementing Accessibility Guidelines

2009-04-01T08:00:00.001-07:00

There has been considerable debate in webmasters community on how the accessibility guidelines help them. The people from search engines like Google are amongst the core team members who decide the W3C accessibility guidelines. The recent WCAG2.0 core team had one of the four people from Google. The search engines do give preference to websites which rank high in accessibility ratings

Survey Motive

2009-03-31T23:53:00.001-07:00

One of the webmaster who participated in the survey gave us feedback , asking motive of the survey. This work is being done as part of university research on Accessibility What we are trying to find out from this. Webmasters point of view of accessibility problem. Why webmasters are not able to take up and implement accessibility guidelines in all of their work. What problems they are

3D Captcha Problem for Blind

2009-03-31T01:14:00.001-07:00

Recently I noticed new form of CAPTCHA used by YUNITI at the registration page . http://www.yuniti.com/register.php The screen shot below shows the CAPTCHA used by them . The user while registering on the website have to match 3D images of objects shown . For example in the image shown below Guitar , Apple and Table Lamp images have to be matched in sequence with the images shown.

Accessibility Survey Request posted

2009-03-31T00:22:00.001-07:00

I have requested webmasters on various forums to take part in short survey to analyze why we are still lagging in implementing accessibility for our websites. If you haven't taken part in this short survey please spare 3-5 min of yours and just complete it. Accessibility Survey The survey request has been posted on various forums namely Accessify Forums Digital Point Forums Elance Talk

Accessibility Survey for Webmasters

2009-03-01T10:06:00.001-08:00

In spite of about 10 years of hard work by World Wide Consortium (W3C) , the percentage of websites implementing accessibility guidelines is very less. To have idea of mind set of webmaster i have created the survey (link below) to have feel what problems are being faced by webmasters in implementing accessibility over their websites and projects. I shall be thankful to you if you can take this

Webmasters survey

2009-03-01T09:18:00.001-08:00

We are carrying out survey of Webmasters around the world with two basic motives Which factors affect webmasters to not to apply accessibility guidelines over their websites?How informed are webmasters these days about accessibility guidelines. I have chosen Questions Pro to handle survey for me. The good thing with them is that they are providing this facility for free to carry out my

Accessibility Scenario in Internet for people with disability

2009-03-01T09:11:00.001-08:00

About 18-20% of the global population suffers from some form or disability. About 97% of websites fail to meet the most basic requirements for accessibility. Global Statistics suggest that: Worldwide, between 600 - 750 million people have a disability 3 out of every 10 families are touched by a disability These are rather shocking numbers given the fact that the Web plays an