AbilityNet, a charity helping adults and children with disabilities use computers and the Internet, has found that the audio alternative to a CAPTCHA on the 2012 London Olympic website could stop people who are blind or vision impaired purchasing tickets.
According to the press release, the name change is due to several reasons, mainly, that Twitter rules of use for third-party applications do not allow the word ‘Twitter’ in the name of the application.
Also, the word ‘easy’ is more understood than ‘accessible’, particularly to those not in the accessibility or disability communities. Easy Chirp is also shorter, especially important with the 140-character limit in Twitter statuses, better known as tweets.
Dr Hollier looks at the recent work of the W3C in making it easier for people to check if websites are accessible for people with disabilities. This work includes the creation of the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schemato help web developers, and the WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force(Eval TF)to create a methodology for accessibility evaluation.
