Accessibility event in DCU

December 5, 2006 by Laurence Veale

Today, Wednesday, 6th December, The Irish Design for All e-Accessbility network is marking the UN Day for Persons with a Disability (which occured on Sunday 3rd December).

There’s a half day event in DCU from 1pm. The theme is e-accessibility. This is aimed at educators from first, second and third level who are interested in learning how to make their electronic content accessible to students with disabilities. There are more details of today’s e-accessibility event on design-for-all.ie

iQ Content and Accessibility

I’ll be talking briefly on our approach to accessibility and universal design and will be providing demonstrations of usability testing on some of Ireland’s most well known websites.

Screenshot of BBC presenter, Craig Doyle, promoting Irish Rail's website as being easy to use.

Challenges to accessibility

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In my talk, I’ll also be mentioning some of the new challenges facing accessibility, namely AJAX or rich internet applications and challenge response systems (or CAPTCHAs) that are becoming more and more prevalent on the web.

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