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Mark Kaelin feels that accessibility is something that is within reach for all web developers. "The Internet, through the interface of the World Wide Web, has become an important factor in almost everyone's life, at least those of us living in the developed world. Along with other twentieth-century technological innovations like the telephone, radio, television, and the automobile, the Internet and the Web have revolutionized how human beings interact with each other. Unfortunately, just like the aforementioned innovations, the Internet also fails to

Roberto Scano offers a detailed and informative history of website accessibility: "The first web revolution happened on the 14th January 1997: HTML 3.2 was issued from a consortium called the W3C, a consortium not yet known to web developers. As written in the document's introduction, HTML 3.2 is the W3C's specification for HTML, developed in early 1996, together with vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell, SoftQuad, Spyglass, and Sun Microsystems. HTML 3.2 added widely deployed features such as tables, applets

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 primary purpose of these HTML/XHTML Best Practices is to improve the accessibility of web resources at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign for students, faculty, staff, and the general public. The typical approach to web accessibility is a "repair" approach which focuses on meeting the technical requirements of either the Section 508 or W3C WCAG 1.0 accessibility standards. This accessibility repair usually results in the resources becoming more "technically accessible" but still remaining functionally unusable by many people with

Through various research programmes, the European Commission has been addressing the needs and requirements of people with disabilities and financing different web accessibility projects for over ten years. One of the projects financially supported by the European Commission is the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) project, which contributes to promoting and developing guidelines and recommendations for web access for all. The WAI forms part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which receives funding from a number of sources, notably from Europe,

In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in. The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They

The W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity is developing specifications as a basis for a new breed of Web application with multiple modes of interaction. Consider applications which use speech, hand writing, and key presses for input, and spoken prompts, audio and visual displays for output. It is implemented by several drafts, which we will briefly review in this article. These include InkML, a language that serves as the data exchange format for representing ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus; and EMMA, a data exchange format for representing

The W3C Multimodal Interaction Activity group is developing specifications for a new breed of Web application that allows multiple modes of interaction—for instance, speech, handwriting, and keypresses for input, and spoken prompts, audio, and visual displays for output. Specification drafts include: * Ink Markup Language (InkML), which serves as the data exchange format for representing ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. * Extensible MultiModal Annotation (EMMA), a data exchange format for representing application-specific

Here's a summary of the most recent face to face meeting of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group. Summary of the W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group and Ink Subgroup Face to Face meetings December 9-11 (main meeting) 12-13 (ink subgroup meeting) Washington DC, USA hosted by Cisco This was the fourth face to face meeting of the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. There were 33 attendees from 23 organizations. This meeting also included a smaller follow-on meeting of the subgroup of the MMI group which is working on an ink

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

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an initiative set-out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. Web accessibility means that visitors with disabilities can still access the web. This includes navigating, understanding, and interpreting the information available. Ensuring website are accessible to all is vital as around 10% of people in the UK have some sort of disability. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) The WCAG explain

In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in. The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They

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

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies - specifications, guidelines, software, and tools. W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative, WAI, in coordination with organisations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development. The WAI website contains hyperlinked guideline specifications, checklists and techniques for web content, authoring tools, user agents and XML. The WAI site also includes quick tips,

WAI develops... * guidelines widely regarded as the international standards for Web accessibility * support materials to help understand and implement Web accessibility * resources, through international collaboration WAI welcomes... * participation from around the world * volunteers to review, implement, and promote guidelines * dedicated participants in interest groups or working groups [@@ The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of usability for people

When the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative recently put one of their technical recommendations, a new version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG 2.0, in Last Call Working Draft status with a deadline of only a few weeks, it caused outrage in the web community. First there was Joe Clark’s article To Hell with WCAG 2.0, soon followed by various other initiatives, and suddenly, the deadline for public review was extended from May 31 to June 22. But don’t consider it a victory, for while we may have more time, there is still no