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Wednesday, October 15, 2003Attitudes to Web Accessibility
 Over at the usabilitynews.com web site, there's a revealing report entitled "Attitudes to Web Accessibility" on the industry's views and understanding of the issue of Accessibility and usability in web design. The survey was carried out by John Knight and Marie Jefsioutine of User-Lab. It makes really interesting reading and should be made compulsory for everyone involved in the web, be they designers, or someone commissioning web development or design work.Of a total of 117 respondents to the survey carried out by the organisation, a disturbing majority (56%) agreed 'there is a conflict between usability and accessibility'. Other key issues sighted as barriers to the greater 'compliance' of web sites and accessibility were:
It is possible, and the law says its a must! Related Links Attitudes to Web Accessibility The EC's Diffuse project (www.diffuse.org) British HCI Group Guidelines for UK Government websites W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) ecommnet's web accessibility statement ecommnet news item Disability Discrimination Act Wakefiled College posted by Robert Campbell 9:56 PM Sunday, October 12, 2003Too Tight Timescales - Callum and the FSA concerned
 Callum McCarthy  Chairman of the FSA is quoted in today's Independent on Sunday Business section 'The Financial Services industry faces, over the period 2004-2008, the task of implementing 14 major EU legislative measures'. McCarthy warned that each will require new IT systems, staff and training. He's particularly concerned about implementation and the pressures this will bring, he's calling for some re-evaluation of the timings and deadlines that have been set by the FSAP.The increase in the legislation affecting financial institutions across the world is proving to be the number one risk management issue for IT and Compliance managers. With the application of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the USA Patriot Act and California's S.B. 1386 privacy law topping the bill in the US, and similarly the UK and EU the Data protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act as well as the specific ones, hold similar concerns for companies in the UK. Now there are indications that the regulators will require companies to take the appropriate measures and disclose them publicly. Expect to see shareholders too making similar demands. While we've all heard a lot of barrack room pundits spouting unfounded and downright misleading interpretations of these serious legislative issues there is a growth market in seminars and good training courses too. The big issues around the ecommnet office, and our customer's, are SPAM or rather how to get rid of it, email archiving and safe guarding laptop data using some form of encryption. Related Links Whitehall laptop theft prompts security concerns Lap top and PDA data encryption email archiving and compliance SB 1386 Financial sector wrestling with new laws Computer World article by Dan Verton posted by Robert Campbell 11:34 AM
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