Stephen Fry Backs Project to Make Web More Accessible
From: University of Southampton (United Kingdom) - 02/01/2011
By: Joyce Lewis 

The recently launched Fix the Web project seeks to make the Web more
accessible for disabled and older users. Fix the Web provides options for
reporting accessibility issues to Web sites through a form on the Fix the Web
site, using Twitter, email, or the ATBar toolbar. Developed by researchers at
the University of Southampton, ATBar offers a Fix the Web button that quickly
launches a report form, which volunteers take through a checking process and
send to Web site owners with information about the accessibility issue. The
ATBar incorporates text resize, text to speech, style, and reference-setting
buttons. Thus far, Fix the Web has reported 388 sites, 20 sites have been
fixed and many more are in progress, and has 296 volunteers. The researchers
say that ATBar has received more than 3 million toolbar hits over the past
six months. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/3618

Links:
Fix the Web
http://www.fixtheweb.net
http://fixtheweb.wordpress.com/

ATBar
http://www.fixtheweb.net/toolbar

Stephen Fry
http://www.fixtheweb.net/stephen-fry