[IxDA Discuss] Accessibility in the Agency Environment

[Amy Silvers]

The agency that I work for is encountering a growing number of clients
who are concerned with accessibility because of lawsuits against
high-profile retailers with non-compliant sites. Our =approach is
usually to build an HTML-only version of the Flash site, which isn't
ideal but is better than nothing. At least one client is budeting for
time and resources to build a non-Flash experience that's more than
a watered-down afterthought to the Flash site. I'm not sure whether
the non-Flash sites are truly 508-compliant.

To answer Challis's original question, we have one accessibility
specialist who floats among projects, and we have some basic
guidelines that creatives are supposed to follow when our specialist
is unavailable. "Supposed to" is the operative phrase there. But
clients do seem to be paying a little bit more attention to the
subject nowadays.


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