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Survey Results: Web Accessibility Practitioners

mz22 — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:20:30 +0000

Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners Results

September 2014 – The Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM) Survey of Web Accessibility Practitioners results are now available. Conducted in July 2014, the survey collected data from 900 respondents within the web accessibility field. The survey focused on practitioner demographics, roles, technology preferences, certifications, and various other aspects of web accessibility efficacy. Some of the details of the survey findings include:

Professionals in the web accessibility field are generally better paid and better educated than those in broader web design and development.
Women and people with disabilities are represented in a larger amount than in other technology fields.
41.5% of respondents without disabilities use Chrome compared to only 16.6% of those with disabilities.
The screen readers used by web accessibility practitioners differ from the general screen reader user population.
There is a disparity between what motivates web accessibility practitioners and what they say motivates their organizations to implement accessibility.

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Updated

mz22 — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:53:24 +0000

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Implementing UAAG 2.0

June 7, 2013 — W3C published an updated version of the recently released working draft Implementing User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0. The draft provides guidance for designing accessible user agents, which include “web browsers and other types of software that retrieve and render web content.” The updated version of the draft now includes mobile accessibility examples to demonstrate how “web browsers that follow UAAG benefit people with disabilities.” Some examples include individuals who may need to use alternative content for images to prevent excessive scrolling or need to set closed captioning as the default for all videos. W3C is seeking comment on the draft, specifically concerning accessibility guidelines for mobile web applications, the clarity of guidelines, whether only certain guidelines must be met for development of user agents for specific platforms, and the availability of “sufficient examples of other technologies that support accessibility.” Comments on the draft are due by June 21, 2013 to public-uaag2-comments@w3.org.