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On 11 December 2008 W3C announced a new standard that will help Web designers and developers create sites that better meet the needs of users with disabilities and older users. Drawing on extensive experience and community feedback, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 improves upon W3C's groundbreaking initial standard for accessible Web content, applies to more advanced technologies, and is more precisely testable.
Rayfields Accessibility will be advising our clients and ensuring all new or updated sites meet the new standard in 2009.]]> http://www.w3.org/WAI/ accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:30:00 GMT http://www.w3.org/WAI/
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 as a Proposed Recommendation, and published updated Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0, Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and How to Meet WCAG 2.0.
WCAG defines how to make Web sites, Web applications, and other Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Comments are welcome through 2 December 2008. Read the announcement, Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.]]> http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item182 accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:50:00 GMT http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item182
Latest site
Rayfields Accessibility and breakofday.co.uk consulted with the client, resulting in a site redesign and test.]]> http://oconnordesigns.com/ accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.oconnordesigns.com/
New Blog
Rayfields Accessibility and Breakofday.co.uk have launched a blog as an area to expand discussion on Web design and accessibility issues.]]> http://www.diybydesign.co.uk/ accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:00:00 GMT http://www.diybydesign.co.uk/
New Article
This article looks at colours on the Web and it's importance.
How getting it right or wrong can make all the difference.]]> http://www.rayfields.co.uk/color.php accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:30:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/color.php New site - New services

The Rayfields Web site has been re-designed and new testing and consultancy services added.

New:- Choose from 3 levels of Web site testing, Basic, Advanced and Premier.

New:- Support services. Bespoke forms, skip link code and accessible Web design.



]]> http://www.rayfields.co.uk/testing.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:20:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/testing.html The IBM company Watchfire has withdrawn WebXact and Bobby from the public doamin. Watchfire say,"As of February 1, 2008 the Watchfire WebXact and Bobby Online products will no longer be publicly available. As an IBM Company, Watchfire will continue to invest in accessibility through the IBM Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition solution (previously WebXM Accessibility Module)." For more information, visit the Watchfire Web site.]]> http://www.watchfire.com/products/webxm/bobby.aspx accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:20:00 GMT http://www.watchfire.com/ Two updated articles have been added to Rayfields Accessibility Consultants article index today, the first is about the html tag accesskeys and the second is about the html tag tabindex. Both articles explain what these tags are, how and where to use them, who could benefit from them and the pros and cons of each tag. Both articles come to a conclusion about using them in todays Web sites. ]]> http://www.rayfields.co.uk/articleindex.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:20:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk We have uploaded another article, this time we look at text and image captcha's. The purpose of a captcha is to allow genuine users the ability to submit a form, whereas spammers, robots or automated methods should fail to be able to send a form because they are unable to work out the answer. http://www.rayfields.co.uk/captcha.php accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/captcha.php Due to the amount of spam forms we received we have implimented measures to combat this, as a result the articles/tutorials have new URL's. Please follow the link on the old pages article/tutorial to their new location or via the updated article index page. http://www.rayfields.co.uk/articleindex.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:34:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/articleindex.html The 1st October 2007 saw the DRC merge into the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The DRC is no longer a stand alone commission and from now you should go to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Web site. www.equalityhumanrights.com/ http://www.rayfields.co.uk/index.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:30:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/ The Scottish Information Commissioner Web site www.itspublicknowledge.info was re-launched on the 5th July 2007. Rayfields Accessibility provided testing and consultancy services. Testing sites under development allows Web site commissioners and developers to address accessibility and usability issues before sites go live. http://www.rayfields.co.uk/clients.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:45:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/clients.html The aim of this article is to dispel the most common myths about accessibility and Web sites. The myths listed within the article are just some of the reasons people give for not incorporating accessibility into their designs. http://www.rayfields.co.uk/the_myths_about_accessibility.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:30:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/the_myths_about_accessibility.html Many people are put off validation due the amount of errors returned on a page, but this article explains that it isn't always that bad. Simply by fixing a few errors can eliminate them all. Happy validating! http://www.rayfields.co.uk/validation.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:30:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/validation.html Forms play an important part in any Web site. They can be used to allow your visitors to contact you, to order items or so you can collate information. If these forms are not usable or accessible your user will not be able to have this interaction with you. This article will explain some key points in making forms accessible. There will be sample code included so you can put this into action today! http://www.rayfields.co.uk/valid_forms.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:30:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/valid_forms.html This tutorial follows on from the CSS skip links intermediate level and explains how to add and style your skip links so they only appear on focus and not visible all the time distracting and confusing visitors. The tutorial leads on from the article introducing skip links. All the code and step-by-step instructions are included. http://www.rayfields.co.uk/css_skip_link_tut2.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:11:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/css_skip_link_tut2.html This tutorial explains how to add and style your skip links. The tutorial leads on from the article introducing skip links. All the code and step-by-step instructions are included. http://www.rayfields.co.uk/css_skip_link_tut1.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:55:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/css_skip_link_tut1.html An article on the introduction of skip links, these are a WCAG requirement for priority 3 AAA compliance. This article gives details of implementation and links to our tutorials for a step-by-step guide on coding and including them into your HTML document. http://www.rayfields.co.uk/css_skip_link_art.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:17:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/css_skip_link_art.html An article on the introduction into accessibility discussing what is accessibility and how to get started building accessible Web sites. The article includes information and links to various resources. http://www.rayfields.co.uk/code.html accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:41:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/code.html Rayfields Accessibility RSS Feed provides information on Web Accessibility issues and news. Including articles and tutorials produced by Rayfields on Web site accessibility and usability matters, helping provide solutions for building standard compliant Web sites and implementing Web accessibility features. http://www.Rayfields.co.uk accessibility@rayfields.co.uk (Rayfields Accessibility Consultancy) Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:07:00 GMT http://www.rayfields.co.uk/index.html