Fixtheweb.net
Fixtheweb has been helping make the internet more accessible one website at a time.
This is one of my favourite community projects and I especially like how it combines the resources of volunteers, website owners and web developers.
Web accessibility (such as access for disabled and older people) is not a legal requirement, and as a result many web developers and website owners have been slow to make their sites accessible. For those who do strive to make their online services available to the largest number of people the obstacle of additional cost can be a real problem to overcome.
Good, modern coding standards (when done right) help accessibility issues but many sites, new and old, still slip up.
One of the most common reasons we have encountered is a simple lack of knowledge. How exactly do you know if your website is accessible?
This is how Fixtheweb can help?
Shrinktheweb helps draw attention to accessibilty issues, providing a quick and simple solution to make it easy for people facing accessibility issues to report problems with the websites they visit.
Once reported volunteers do the work of contacting the website owners and signposting them to support, sharing the burden. this provides crucial information to web owners about their sites. Everybody wins… Steven fry even called it “Pure genius!”
You can find out more about getting involved or report a website here
