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[inobu]

14 minutes ago, Tony Galiani said:

Since I used to work in this area, I ran the site through an accessibility checker for WCAG2.2 and it got a score of 68 with 265 identified issues.  However, this is not an American based company or web site so HS is not required to comply to ADA standards.  (Heck, many American companies do not manage to comply.)   They should meet Japanese requirements but I have no idea how they relate to our ADA.  In my travels I see quite a bit of accessibility options that may be good for that country but do not comply with our standards.  And, of course, US requirements are constantly evolving - often technology is put in place first and then issues sorted out after the fact.

Tony

I used ADA as a topic descriptor. I didn't know what Japan called. It looks like Japan calls it JIS X 8341.

 

Inobu

[cteno4]

A lot of the ada design process for sites actually can be a good process in site redesign in general as it makes you think carefully about all parts of content and nav you have on the screen and how they relate, hierarchy, and placement. Also helps as you tag content bits well which many times is not done well but helps if you redesign or reskin later. I found ADA forced the client to have to think about these things (ie they wanted the compliance), but were unwilling to do a lot of this just for the sake of the content and site design. Content is the very poor step child now, use to be the main thing, but no more. 
 

like tony mentioned many times it’s the rapidly evolving technology that is the biggest pain in the ass to keep stuff compliant. 
sort of on par with keeping stuff working in general on a bunch of browsers and platforms at the same time.

 

jeff