The assurance of web accessibility for the visually impaired is a very acute problem. Taking in consideration the number of persons who are visually impaired this makes a very large group of people limited in their access to internet resources. But now some work concerning the extended web style sheets is implemented. It contains built in facilities which will assist the visually impaired.
The HTML standard was initially projected as a structural markup language. The latter improvements made with the help of such companies as Netscape and
Work is currently going on to extend web style sheets to include facilities for the visually impaired as part of the HTML work within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA and INRIA.
HTML was originally intended as a structural markup language (defining, for instance what the top-level heading is for a document, but not how it should be displayed), but later additions by, amongst others Netscape and Microsoft, added new markup to HTML that was only there to influence the presentation, for
The W3C Multimodal Interaction (MMI) Working Group [1] held a face to
face meeting in Hawthorne, New York, September 22-24, 2004, hosted by
IBM. There were 33 attendees from 23 organizations. This note
summarizes the results of the meeting.
The MMI meeting was colocated with a meeting of the Voice Browser
Working Group [2]. We took advantage of this to hold a joint meeting
with the Voice Browser group about the evolving Voice Browser V3
architecture and its relationship to multimodal architectures.
The MMI meeting focused on MMI
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