Ah, the irony of it all
Inclusive where?
You might think that of all people The Office of Disability Issues would manage to produce a fully accessible website, and on the surface, it's not bad.
Their failure, though, is both subtle and significant.
Lets start on the 'background to digital communications' page. All looks good. We have a tidy, consistent layout equipped with a clear navigation structure. Look what happens, though, if we pick an option from the menu at the top of the central content area, 'inclusive websites', for example. Suddenly our menu highlighting is gone, our breadcrumb trail is truncated, and we lose all sense of our location within the site heirachy.It's not all about ALT texts and code validity. As the WCAG quicktips emphasise, we need to: "Make content appear and operate in predictable ways". Accessibility is about much more than disablity: it's about consistent design and robust information architecture.
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