Mobile web access toolkit
Feb 8th, 2008 by iheni
If you’re looking for guidance on making web access from a mobile devices as simple, easy and convenient as web access from a desktop devices look no further than the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) Working Group.
The group has recently published a number of really useful documents and tools giving step by step guidance on building and testing accessible mobile web content. The good news is that if you’ve been working to make your web content accessible or internationalised you’ll find that part of the job is already done. Below is a summary of some of the keys documents:
- Mobile Web Best Practices: The MWBP’s specifies best practices for web content when accessed from mobile devices. This is an ideal start if you are a developer and want a definitive list of what to do.
- MobileOK Basic Tests: These are based on the MWBP and form the basis for claiming conformance to the MWBP’s. These tests are useful if you are a developer or part of a quality assurance team needing to verify content.
- MobileOK basic tests Checker 1.0 (beta): Just released this checker is available for download as a .jar file and enables you to verify your content against the MobileOK basic tests. This is in beta version so if you have any comments or bug reports by all means feedback to the Working Group.
- Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: A bit of a mouthful but this document describes the similarities and differences between the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP). Whether you’re a developer who comes from an accessibility point of view or a developer that comes from a mobile web point of view this document gives you the rationale and cross overs between the two. It’s also a useful resource if you’re putting together a business case for either making your content accessible or optimised for mobile devices.Linked in with this document are a couple of others, both in draft and co-written with the Web Accessibility Initiative, and written about previously in this blog:
For updates on the above documents and further information check the MWBP blog.
