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My initial thought about the Web was “wonderful, now everybody can access digital information and use the Web to it’s full potential, no matter where in the world they are.” Only later I learned that there are often technical or political restrictions, and badly designed or programmed websites exclude people, often unintentionally. People don’t want to discriminate other people, they just don’t know any better and make mistakes or misjudgments. So when the WCAG 1.0 were published in 1999 this was a revelation, and it became one of the standard tools in my professional toolbox. Ten years later I joined the W3C HTML Accessibility Task Force to help enhancing the accessibility of HTML5.
You will become aware of the top ten barriers in websites and how to recognize and avoid them. You will learn that accessibility reaches beyond blind people as there are many aspects of disabilities and perspectives to keep in mind. Checklists and add-ons help, but you will also get some first-hand insights in using (open source) screen reader software, and above all, to care about the people. Because beyond checklists you're touching their lives.
I'm planning to hold a weekly one hour telephone conference & chat via Skype for initial short presentations and discussion. We can exchange ideas and discuss assignments on the Wiki.