Accessibility Testing

Bob Easton over at Access Matters has written up the results of another of his fantastic quizzes, testing whether screen readers really do benefit from good semantic markup and CSS for layout. As test subjects he's taken 4 radically different Zen Garden designs and run them through JAWS, Windows-Eyes and IBM Homepage Reader. He's found failings in some old image replacements methods but apart from that, everything works as expected. Very, very good news!

My mantra for accessibility has been "make the source semantic and logical" for a couple of years now, after doing a bit of testing on screen readers and text browsers When Joe Clark called for testing of CSS layouts, I got a little worried... Did I do enough testing? It's a relief for Bob et al to come to the same conclusions as me indepentantly.

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