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6 years on, Accessify Forum needs YOU!

Thursday, August 6th, 2009
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Accessify Forum

Today the Accessify Forum celebrates its sixth birthday. In that time we’ve seen over 60,000 posts, and membership currently stands at about 9,000. For a forum dedicated to web accessibility, I think that’s pretty good.

Perhaps the most endearing aspect of the forum is the wonderful debates we’ve seen over the years. As I wrote back in March, web accessibility relies upon discussion and debate to develop. There are often blurred lines between right and wrong, and real-world accessibility is far from binary. Only through honest debate can we arrive at anything close to the best answer to the questions that the subject poses.

More about the forum and why it needs you

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Accessify Forum gets the Twitterbug

Monday, July 6th, 2009
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Accessify Forum now on Twitter

Just hours after the original suggestion by fellow Accessify Forum moderator Jack Pickard, the popular accessibility discussion forum has now joined Twitter. You can follow the tweets over at @accessifyforum.

We’re currently developing policies to guide our usage of the account – the first of which is that we’ll be appending each tweet with initials to make it easy to identify the individual author. This is nicely aligned to some work I’m doing within my organisation, trying to define best practices and create policies for our use of Social Media. I’m currently working on a post summarising this work, with some links to useful policies already in existence, so stay tuned for that over the coming weeks.

For now, though, head over to www.accessifyforum.com to join the discussion, and don’t forget to follow @accessifyforum next time you’re on Twitter.

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