Sharon Perry » testing http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/accessibility Cetis Blog Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:04:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 Crowdsourcing to Fix the Web http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/accessibility/2011/03/08/crowdsourcing-to-fix-the-web/ http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/accessibility/2011/03/08/crowdsourcing-to-fix-the-web/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:52:03 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/accessibility/?p=213 Fix The Web is a site which encourages people with disabilities to report any accessibility problems they have with a website.]]> Well.. not the whole web, obviously, but some of the inaccessible bits. Fix The Web is a site which encourages people with disabilities to report any accessibility problems they have with a website. Volunteers then take these problems up with the website owners.

It is not intended to make web developers lazy (“I’ll wait until Fix the Web volunteers tell me what I need to do”) but rather to highlight the issues faced by people with disabilities, particularly as most web developers are not accessibility experts and most people with disabilities are not web developers.

Using a middleman (or woman) to act as an interface between people with disabilities, who experience problems with inaccessible websites, and the web developers themselves could help make the web a better place for everyone and act as an informal means of educating developers about the importance of accessibility.

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