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To create accessible web pages are very essential as far as the web designing are concerned. This is in such a way to make the buildings accessible to people. Similarly Stanford’s online spaces are equally available to those using reliable technologies with special type of accessibility. In this way the accessibility has become an inevitable factor as far as the web pages are concerned. There are numerous ways to keep the accessibility in good conditions with respect all websites. If these are followed suitably the very good performance from

AJAX is a very powerful way of making your web page interactive. It is a straightforward instrument for experienced web-developers and therefore it is very popular nowadays. But AJAX has a very big problem with accessibility. Sometimes, pages with AJAX can trigger a script that simply changes the way the page looks like or changes the contents of the page. For someone that is using a screen reader to navigate through it, it is very hard to understand that possibly a text is somewhere changed. So, in order to make AJAX accessible, there

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

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

Web developer James Edwards would probably almost go so far as to say that it's offensive to him when people complain that web accessibility is a cumbersome process. To help fight this idea, he has created an article bringing up something that many of us may not think of; mouse-less navigation. "Most of us use a mouse for the majority of our graphic interface navigation, but some people can't, and must therefore navigate using the keyboard instead. For a person who has a hand tremor, for example, the precision control required to use a mouse

Article from the Isolani Blog... If you TRULY think that Flash is accessible, then you have just lost any credibility with me (as a professional web developer). Show me how Flash is accessible (to everyone, not just disabilities). It requires a plugin, and is virtually blind to a very important visitor - the search bot. Flash STILL has not come up to par with being optimized with searching and search engines. Flash tries to replace the medium itself and remove the browser. Though some of these are due to poor development practices, please show me

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is a branch of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which aims to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web for those using all kinds of user agents as well as web browsers, such as screen readers, mobile phones and braille browsers. The WAI has developed a series of guidelines to this end, particularly with physically disabled internet users in mind. Compliance with these guidelines is wise, not only because excluding any group of people is inadvisable and unethical, but also because WAI compliant sites

If you TRULY think that Flash is accessible, then you have just lost any credibility with me (as a professional web developer). Show me how Flash is accessible (to everyone, not just disabilities). It requires a plugin, and is virtually blind to a very important visitor - the search bot. Flash STILL has not come up to par with being optimized with searching and search engines. Flash tries to replace the medium itself and remove the browser. Though some of these are due to poor development practices, please show me a site that handles the

Most people today can hardly conceive of life without the internet. It provides access to news, email, shopping, and entertainment, at any hour of the day or night. Some have argued that no other single invention has been more revolutionary since Gutenberg's printing press in the 1400s. Now, at the click of a mouse, the world can be "at your fingertips"—that is, if you can use a mouse... and see the screen... and hear the audio—in other words, if you don't have a disability of any kind. This introduction should help you understand how people with