Welcome to August's edition of Useworthy. The RNIB has held another successful accessibility conference we give you the low-down. Does your company have an Intranet? Or are you designing one? Catriona Campbell looks into the ideal Intranet, whilst Paul Blunden gives his opinion of the productivity and usability of Intranets.

Web accessibility and web usability: what's the relationship and why does it matter?

In May 1999, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to help web designers create websites that are accessible to everyone, regardless of ability/disability, technology or circumstance.

Since that time, many accessible sites have been created in accordance with the guidelines. On closer inspection however, while some of these sites are technically accessible, they are not always easy to use.

Are accessibility and usability different? Are accessible websites automatically usable, or must designers also following guidelines additional guidelines to ensure usability? These are just some of the questions that were considered at this event.

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Anyone who has worked for, or with a large organisation over the last 10 years has probably experienced the implementation of the corporate intranet as it has been rolled out to the organisation. 

The corporate intranet has been hailed as the most important business tool since the typewriter, but the track record so far has been mixed.