The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) is a worldwide association of professional organisations, web designers and developers working together to promote the use and preservation of accessible design standards.
"Promoting a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be, relevant, obtainable, and not at odds with successful business practice or good visual and usable design."
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The Government Equality Office (GEO) has withdrawn the timetable that detailed which parts of the recently passed Equality Act would come into force when. Some elements were due to come into force in October.
From out-law.com
OPINION: The UK's law on web accessibility is being re-written in an apparent attempt to make it impenetrable. But even though algebra has replaced plain English, the duty to make information accessible to disabled people survives, thanks to a blind peer.
From out-law.com
Join Duff Johnson, chair of the US PDF Universal Accessibility Committee (PDF/UA), on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 10:00 am US Pacific, for a free Tech Talk on essential concepts in document accessibility, the role of Acrobat's Accessibility Checker, and tips on how to recognize and correct accessibility problems in PDF files.
Duff will offer detailed advice on coping with the following common document structure challenges:
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