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Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by draco

draco — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:05:45 +0000

Ah, I didn’t know WIS is a branding guide, so I stand corrected, couldn’t agree with you more then. There’s nothing I can do, so here’s good luck to making your belief a reality.

Comment on Joining Digital Boomerang by coleman yee

coleman yee — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:56:20 +0000

@choonkeat thanks!

@veron I’ll check on that!

Comment on Joining Digital Boomerang by Veron

Veron — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:18:16 +0000

Do they have room for one more? I would love to be the “Web Design Guru”.

Comment on Joining Digital Boomerang by choonkeat

choonkeat — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:42:47 +0000

:-O All the best!

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Accessibility on Singapore Government websites « sgLEAD — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:01:42 +0000

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Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by coleman yee

coleman yee — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:35 +0000

I don’t really see a need for the WIS to be reviewed by the public to be improved on, because it also serves as sort of a branding guide, which should be an internal matter.

However, I think it should be publicly available in the spirit of openness. A few people have expressed this to me as well.

Besides this, I strongly believe that the WIS should be a collaborative or at least a strong consultative effort involving interested web experts from different government agencies, and not just an effort by a single agency, especially since it affects all agencies.

As for WCAG 1 or 2, we’re so far behind that it really doesn’t matter.

Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by draco

draco — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:41:01 +0000

They should really release the WIS recommendation to the public to be reviewed and improved on. I don’t know how much WCAG 2 has changed over the last few years, but last I heard about it were mostly negative over WCAG 1.

I hope things have improved in the recommendation and is a good example now for WIS to be based on.

Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by coleman yee

coleman yee — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:03:34 +0000

Good question. For the older government websites and online services, they were built during the time when IE was so dominant that it didn’t matter as much as today. Also, there was a lot less awareness then, and competent vendors were even rarer then.

These days, new government websites generally work on the most common browsers, partly because they do ask for it now. Beyond that, like small screen devices or screen readers, it’s still a different story – government clients don’t usually ask for it.

Do vendors charge extra? They generally don’t for accessibility on common browsers, but for other devices, I’d think they normally do.

Comment on Accessibility on Singapore Government websites by weekee

weekee — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:48:27 +0000

given the importance of accessibility especially with so many different browsers out now, why do you think government isn’t making it mandatory. Considering that they are the client, it isn’t so hard to request for it. Are vendors charging extra for it, etc?

Comment on Moving on… by claudia

claudia — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:31:52 +0000

All the best! Lets see if we’ll get chance to work on something together too.

Blog more! Your thoughts never fails to intrigued me.