Transparency without accessibility?
From: Federal Computer Week - 11/16/2009 - page 24
By: Alice Lipowicz

Nearly 20 percent of Americans need sites such as Recovery.gov and
Disability.gov to improve accessibility features 

When a redesigned Recovery.gov Web site was unveiled last month to track the
distribution of stimulus dollars, it was touted as another example of the
Obama administration’s push for greater transparency. But the technology and
design of the site left one segment of the population less than satisfied. 

Advocates for people with disabilities found a number of accessibility flaws
on the site that jumbled the spending data or otherwise put it beyond the
reach of people using screen readers and other assistive devices. 

Read the entire article at:
http://fcw.com/articles/2009/11/16/pol-accessibility.aspx?sc_lang=en

Sidebar:
Putting Web sites to the test
http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/11/16/POL-accessibility-sidebar.aspx