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Historically, many businesses
have been reluctant to offer wireless access in their offices due to the
insecure nature of the technology. An often quoted example of security concerns
are so called "car park snooping", where hackers sit in the car park
of a business and use the wireless network to penetrate firewalls and access
the targets network.
The growth of the internet
though has made access now almost mandatory in order for business to function.
Guests to a site often need to be provided access to cloud applications such as
salesforce.com and Google Docs or to web based demonstrations in order to
support interaction and allow the business to function. The growth of tablet
PCs, iPhones and other high end devices has also meant that Company executives
are now demanding wireless internet connectivity as an essential 'must have'
rather than a luxury.
Wireless access to customers,
contractors, visitors and Company employees can be provided easily and without
compromising corporate network security using the latest generation of wireless
technologies. A well thought out guest access portal improves business
productivity; increases brand loyalty, improves staff satisfaction and
eliminates the burden of supporting unplanned network access by guests (and
staff) to perform essential business meetings.
An accessibility audit
involves an accessibility expert reviewing your site, highlighting all
accessibility issues and providing recommendations for fixing them. The
reviewer would typically use assistive software used by disabled web users
(e.g. a screen reader) to effectively carry out the audit, along with the Web
Accessibility Toolbar.
You could hire an external
accessibility consultancy to do this, but it's also possible to conduct the
audit in-house. By reading through the W3C accessibility guidelines and
attending a web accessibility training course (the latter to learn 'real-world'
accessibility) you can gain a base level of accessibility knowledge. You should
then be able to get your website up to a reasonable level of accessibility.
The main benefit of using an
accessibility audit to evaluate your website is that accessibility audits are
significantly cheaper and quicker than accessibility testing. Accessibility
audits are often more comprehensive than accessibility testing in their depth
and breadth of recommendations.
The main disadvantage of
accessibility audits is that they're not designed for knowledge transfer. As
such, your web team won't gain a great understanding of web accessibility nor
are they likely to get much extra buy-in into accessibility. Both of these can
be remedied through effective accessibility training.
Accessibility testing
There are a number of
organisations in the accessibility world that swear by accessibility testing.
The Disability Rights Commission, for example, have consistently said that
testing a website with real disabled users is the only way to ensure it offers
optimum accessibility. Their formal investigation into the accessibility of
1000 websites and the PAS 78 document they spearheaded both very strongly state
that accessibility testing is the way to uncover all accessibility issues.
The main benefits of
conducting accessibility testing include:
- You'll uncover website
usability issues too
As accessibility testing
involves testing your website with real people, you'll get the side benefit of
uncovering website usability issues too. If however you're going to invest the
time and money involved in conducing accessibility testing then you might as
well just carry out regular usability testing. Regular usability testing will
uncover more usability issues as disabled users tend to take longer to complete
tasks so carry out fewer tasks in a testing session.
- It's a great learning
experience for your web team
Running accessibility testing
sessions, particularly if you're able to watch them live, is a great learning
experience for everyone involved. There's nothing more eye opening than
watching real users with real disabilities attempt to use your site.
Accessibility testing is also a great way of getting the web team to get buy-in
into accessibility.
There are also some
disadvantages of using accessibility testing as a way of evaluating your
website's accessibility:
Visit for more information
:- https://www.accessableqld.com/
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