Is your content accessible and mobile?

By henny
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has just published some great resources on the cross overs between the mobile web and accessibility. The good news is that reading through these you'll see how designing with accessibility in mind makes your site work much better on mobile devices and that if you follow mobile web best practices you will already be enhancing the web accessibility of your site. Yet another nugget to add to the business case for web accessibility or mobile web best practices. This really does show how standards are mutually supportive and work together killing two birds with one stone:

• Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
• Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines First Public Working Draft

It doesn't stop there however. There is also a strong cross over between mobile web best practices, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and internationalisation. Watch this space as I'll be publishing an article soon that looks at the cross overs between all three. Finally a nod in the direction of Alan Chuter who worked so hard on getting these drafts together.