30 May 2007

The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) has organised a forum at which the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 will be discussed.

Taking place on June 5th 2007 at Westminster University's New Cavendish Street campus, the forum will feature one of the world's top web experts, Shawn Lawton Henry, according to the Web Standards Project (WaSP).

Ms Henry holds a post of Web Accessibility Initiative Outreach Coordinator at the World Wide Web Consortium, while also working on a research appointment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Discussing Ms Henry's accessibility guidance, WaSP's Mike Davies commented: "One point in particular stood out for me. Allowing text to increase in size is not enough; sometimes content can be more accessible when text size is allowed to be reduced."

An example of this he cited is when a user suffers from tunnel vision they have a limited range of sight - thereby meaning that smaller fonts enable them to view the whole page.

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