Website Accessibility - imput required please

Over the past few months I have been increasingly aware of the need for websites to be accessible to all. On doing extensive research I have come to the comclusion that there is no definitive answer to how and what youw website should include to be deemed as accessible. I know that is should comply and that there are 3 different priorities:

A - Must comply to
AA - should comply to
AAA would be good if it complied.

Where my confusion lays in the array of tools available to check your webpages. They all seem to be looking ar different things and even if they say that the site complies there seem to be bits that would be useful missed out.

So I thought I would start this blog and invite anyone interested to join me in this discussion. My objective is to come to some kind of consensus of opinion as to what a well designed accessible webpage should contain.

I am particulary looking for comment from those who may have a disability as user experience is worth far more than valuable than those who can't really completely understand what is needed.

So please everyone share you opinions.

I shall over the course of this blog be putting my findings up on my website for others to view. If you have any examples of accessible websites that work well for you please let me know. Click here so that you can contact me .

Nlabs Conference Leicester

Yesterday I attended and presented at the NLABS Conference in De Montfort University (DMU) Leicester which was discussing Social Networking. I was a very informative day in which I learn't a lot but also had a large list of things to do. There were many informative people attending it was a great pleasure to be able to attend. Some of the high lights for me were Jim Benson talking about setting your goals and how using social networking can make you more cost effective and Ken Thompson's mobile phone swarm experiment. My presentation was on Search Engine Optimisation and how Social Networking can help with this. The Social networking and SEO presentation can be downloaded by clicking here
My congratulations to Professor Sue Thomas and her merry band who organised this sucessful event