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
In order to ease the development of devices with visual and voice interfaces for PDAs and other handheld devices, the Multimodal Toolkit and Rational Application Developer can be used. By using these products one can minimize the skills and time needed for creating complicated programs that use XHTML+V(XHTML + VOICE) on compatible devices.
XHTML+V is a new technology, that combine XHTML and voice interfaces on small devices, like PDAs and tablets. It is accomplished by combining different web standards, such as ECMAScript, JavaScript,
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 is the third of a trilogy of accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium. These documents were designed to present a consistent model for Web accessibility in which responsibilities for addressing the needs of users with disabilities are shared (and distributed among) authors, software developers, and specification writers.
Ms. Laitinen is an accountant at an insurance company that uses Web-based formats over a corporate intranet. She
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