Where standards converge: making your content accessible and mobile
Jan 22nd, 2008 by iheni
The good people over at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) have just published some great resources on the cross overs between the mobile web and accessibility.
I’m really excited about this as it reinforces the case for web standards. Reading through you’ll see how designing with accessibility in mind makes your site work much better on mobile devices and that if you follow mobile web best practices you will already be enhancing the web accessibility of your site. Yet another nugget to add to the business case for web accessibility or mobile web best practices. This really does show how standards are mutually supportive and work together killing two birds with one stone:
- Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
- Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines First Public Working Draft
It doesn’t stop there however. There is also a strong cross over between mobile web best practices, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and internationalisation. Watch this space as I’ll be publishing an article soon that looks at the cross overs between all three.
Finally a nod in the direction of Alan Chuter who worked so hard on getting these drafts together.
[...] 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 are 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 are putting together a business case for either making your content accessible of 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: [...]