Legal Issues

Seale (2006) suggests that the introduction of standards, guidelines and legislation has not led to a significant improvement in accessibility. I would disagree. Yes, there is no doubt that there is a long way to go and progress is slow – but to say that there has been no significant improvement – I think is [...]

Why we need to widen accessibility

Roughly one in five of the UK population is disabled – 18% – according to the 2001 census, so widening accessibility to include disabled people could result in a considerable increase in the number of people who can use a particular product.
In the UK, the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in 1995, made it unlawful to [...]