CMS and Disability Act, 4 Mar 2005

Remember that code alone does not make you 'DDA Compliant' (not that there is such a thing,... 1 guidelines (which most people agree the DDA will use as their base level of ... on how you interpret the WCAG (as the DDA doesn't really make that many specific ...
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CMS and Disability Act, 11 Mar 2005

...Remember that code alone does not make you ’DDA Compliant’ (not that there is such a thing,...WCAG 1 guidelines (which most people agree the DDA will use as their base level of ... on how you interpret the WCAG (as the DDA doesn’t really make that many specific ...
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Accessibility testing software?, 16 May 2007

..., but automatically testing a site to DDA standards is a bit tough though!  ... was inside and outside the scope of DDA (best guess was that W3C WAI AA ... which will test my whole site for DDA accessibility? Thanks in advance. Matthew Boseley ...
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Should books be made accessible? Discuss., 12 Oct 2004

... those who have visual impairments? The : Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) says “It’s unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against...like to run an online chat but, due to the DDA requirements, this task has been made almost impossible. The most...
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Should books be made accessible? Discuss., 12 Oct 2004

... go one step further and suggest that people are not forced to comply with the DDA at all. We should scrap it altogether as a law. The DDA has already been twisted too far in favour of the blind. For most, ...
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Should books be made accessible? Discuss., 20 Oct 2004

...even go one step further and suggest that people are not forced to comply with the DDA at all. We should scrap it altogether as a law. The DDA has already been twisted too far in favour of the blind. For most, ...
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PAS 78 - New accessibility and design guidelines for websites, 10 Mar 2006

... comply with accessibility guidelines and therefore achieve Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requirements. Web accessibility and DDA is often viewed with scepticism.  Though guidelines exist from W3C, it is...
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PAS 78 - New accessibility and design guidelines for websites, 11 Mar 2006

... comply with accessibility guidelines and therefore achieve Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requirements. Web accessibility and DDA is often viewed with scepticism.  Though guidelines exist from W3C, it is...
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Is video content the future for business websites?, 7 Apr 2008

...allow accessibility to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2) Many accessibility experts believe that conforming to the...whilst not a specific requirement for compliance with the DDA) will help any defence in court against discrimination....
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Is video content the future for business websites?, 8 Apr 2008

...allow accessibility to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2) Many accessibility experts believe that conforming to the...whilst not a specific requirement for compliance with the DDA) will help any defence in court against discrimination. ...
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How disabled users access the Internet, 6 Sep 2004

In 1995 a new era of accessibility for disabled people began. The DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) was passed, stating that:“It’s unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it...
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Should books be made accessible? Discuss., 12 Oct 2004

...too hard/impossible to create accessible sites, or that if other people aren't bothering, why should they? I'm not sure that the DDA (which is politically vague, as we've all worked out ) requires that you don't have a chat service - or even that Flash...
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CMS and Disability Act, 2 Mar 2005

...Hi Alex, At Surfability we've developed our own 'spot on' CMS for our clients with a WYSIWIG that produces accessible XHTML that is DDA compliant. We use a lot of open source software but we couldn't find a CMS that could do everything we wanted it to. ...
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From Paper to Page – what’s the ideal web design process?, 18 Mar 2005

...a major car hire group. Their concern was, yes of course about accessability and usability in all its manifestations (layout, DDA, navigation etc.) but also considering the brand in how the site communicated with their audience. Their concern was that the ...
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Usability and Accessibility are not the same!, 11 Apr 2005

... reason that accessibility has perhaps been put on an almost equal and separate footing with usability is solely down to Part III of the DDA 2004 which came into place last October. (see www.drc-gb.org ) As with any legislation that may lead to legal ...
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