It might make sense to incorporate any accessibility guidelines into your corporate house style, like Learning and Teaching Scotland's example:
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/webstandards/
We've found in our College that people respond better to accessibility directives when they can have visualizations of what we're trying to achieve. Therefore, telling them how to use the Microsoft Word document map lets them see the document structure built up of headings they are using. And if you use labels in HTML forms, the browser usually lets you operate form controls by clicking on them (which is easy enough for authors to test).
So, if your content authoring tools can support such visualizations, build accessible styles into templates, and have contextual help (like a toolbar with shortcuts and links to authoring accessibility guidelines), this might be a practical way forward.
Tavis Reddick
Web Content and Architecture Developer
ICT Systems Development
ICT Department
Adam Smith College
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For a while I have been trying to get to grips with WCAG2.0 enough to rewrite our accessibility statement and guidelines...
So, how are other UKHE institutions doing with this?
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