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Cafe Rouge's new accessible website
Caf Rouge have claimed to have launched a new accessible website. Webcredible's Trenton Moss doesn't quite agree
Caf Rouge has recently relaunched their website with
accessibility in mind and are "taking the challenge of web
accessibility seriously", according to their press
release today. Im not so sure if I agree with this
statement. They claim their website conforms to Level A of the
accessibility guidelines, but really this is nothing to shout
about. (This is particularly true as the site doesnt even
conform to level A. For example, the site cant be used if
images are turned off and equivalent content isnt provided for
users who dont have Flash.)
Conformance to just Level A guidelines means that more or
less everyone will be able to access the content, but really
youve got to be aiming higher than this. Even though most
people can access all the content, it will be so incredibly
difficult and arduous to do so for many users with special needs
that they might as well have not bothered. Weve got to be
aiming higher than Level A, particularly when building a brand
new site that isnt particularly sizeable. Full compliance with
level AA or even AAA isnt realistic for many organisations in
practice, but we at least need to be aiming for these as every
little bit helps.
Probably the most ironic thing about the Caf Rouge press
release is that the homepage of their new site sports a link,
'click here'. Avoiding link text like 'click
here' and making sure link text makes sense out of context
is one of the most well known and important guidelines out
there.
Trenton Moss, Webcredible
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