SAIF: Web Accessibility - Code of Practice BS 8878: an Overview

Added on Tuesday 31 Jul 2012

We recently invited David Sloan, based at the University of Dundee, to a SAIF ecommunication working group.  He very kindly offered to write an overview of the newest web accessibilty code of practice - BS 8878, which you can download below.

Web Accessibility - Code of Practice BS 8878:  an Overview (Word)

Web Accessibility - Code of Practice BS 8878:  an Overview (PDF)

David is an accessibility and inclusive technology design researcher, consultant and teacher.  He leads an accessibility consultancy - the Digital Media Access Group (http://www.dmag.org.uk) and is the University's representative on eAccess+, the European eAccessibility network (http://www.eaccessplus.eu).

You can follow David on Twitter: @sloandr

Or keep up with his blog: http://58sound.com and http://blog.dundee.ac.uk/accessibility/

SAIF Contacts 

Freephone 0800 169 0022

SAIF and SCVO are currently working together to refresh the SAIF website, publications, training and other information resources.  We hope to have the new website available by September 2013.

 

Accessible website design and development by Jim Byrne.