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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

Once with the great pace of development of the World Wide Web, a new important problem appears: how to make the Internet accessible for the people with disabilities? As an answer to this question appeared the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines document, first version 1.0, and more recently the 2.0 version. It covers a great range of recommendations that would enable the Internet to be much more accessible. After following these recommendations from W3C, a wider range of people with disabilities, such as blindness and low vision,

If you are looking out for a portal for poker where even blind could enjoy playing. This may sound incredible but it is indeed being done by www.indelv.com. One could enjoy playing three different types of poker games with accessible slots and win small prizes too. Texas Hold’em is one of the highlights in www.indelv.com and accessible fully for everybody. The policy in having this poker game online is to provide equal opportunity for everyone and treat everyone as equal. Having a fully accessible game for everyone is indeed a good thing where

Always feel a certain degree of skepticism when it comes to the concept of universality in Web design. My intuition and usability experience tell me, that a good universal solution does not really exist. Any universal Web site, intended for use by both able and disabled people, can be easily improved, if we optimize it specifically for each target audience. On the other hand, we designers don't usually consider what is best and optimal for the disabled audience. Frequently, disabled people are just out of the picture when it comes to design and any

Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users can have equal access to information and functionality. For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text-to-speech software and/or text-to-Braille hardware. When text and images are large and/or enlargable, it is easier for users with poor sight