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Web Directions speakers in the news – Gian Sampson-Wild

While she might not e speaking this year, last year’s speaker Gian Sampson-Wild has an important role to play in conjunction with Web Directions South this year, which we’ll be announcing next week. For now, she’s been in the news a fair bit, and has just published an article on testability for the eminent online journal “A list apart”

You’d be forgiven for not recognizing the term “testability”, despite its central importance to the W3C’s new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0). There’s little mention of testability in WCAG 2.0 documents—and given the verbosity of the guidelines, the absence of information about testability seems almost purposeful. Indeed, testability is one of WCAG 2.0’s big secrets: while most of the public complaints about WCAG 2.0 have been about technology neutrality, jargon, and the lack of attention to people with cognitive disabilities, the underlying cause behind these issues—testability—has taken a back seat.

Read the article for more on this important issue.

[tags]wds07, testability, accessibility, wcag[/tags]

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