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The universities nowadays are developing, by transferring from buildings to Web and internal networks. But one of the most ardent problems there is that complicates the access of the impaired to studies is the absences of accessible technology for the disabled students. The solution for this is the creation of accessible web pages. This is also necessary in order to comply with the national legislation, especially concerning the disabled persons. The universities work hard on assuring the academic equality and non discrimination in the access to

The European community is very interested in creating accessible internet resources. For this purpose special policy measures were undertaken to assure a greater accessibility for the disabled. The project which is financially supported by the European Commission is the “Web Accessibility Initiative”; it creates and promotes recommendations and guidelines for public internet access. The short history of these measures consists of a line of initiatives for the past ten years. The "eEurope Action Plan 2002" that started in June 2000,

Introduction Patients have a variety of complicated medical conditions which may impact on their use of the computer. The obvious one most people think of is blindness, although that is far from being the only one to consider. I have had clinicians tell me they don't need to worry about having their web site meet the needs of blind patients, since only 5% of their practice is blind. Ahem. Perhaps more relevant (although less obvious) than the moral or ethical aspects of this mentality is the legal aspect. Legally, there are various codes in different