About time for accessibility
— The British Standards Institute (BSI) weighs in on web accessibility with PAS78.”
At last, a bit of consistency on web accessibility could be coming our way, reports the BBC today.
The British Standards Institute has released guidelines in the form of a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) in a valiant attempt to clear up the grand fog that is accessibility for websites.
Details are minimal without shelling out of course, but it would appear that PAS 78, developed by the Disability Rights Commission supports W3C specs and offers something like a definitive body of guidelines for website accessibility…
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