Has everyone heard?
"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced a new standard to make sites more accessible to older and disabled people.
Version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) will apply to text, images, audio and video."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7789622.stm
This will give digital agencies plenty of excuses to sell in updates to previous work.
One of the things I think is a good money making idea, but also a good general idea "In particular, the draft standard recommends the involvement of disabled people in the development of websites and suggests automated tools to test for accessibility." - i.e. getting disabled people involved in user testing.
By the looks of it we should be working towards BS 8878 as well.
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