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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

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) are a group formed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) that develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to everybody, including those with temporary or permanent disabilities. It has links into the other domains of the W3C and is sponsored by Government agencies and Corporate companies. It is hosted from the W3C bases in US, Europe and Asia. What is covered in this site? There are 3 main authoring guides created by the WAI for website accessibility. There are the Web Content

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

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

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

This was an information day held in Melbourne on 22 September 1998. A one hour presentation about universal web accessibility was offered throughout the day. The presentation and a rich set of resources for those who wish to know more, was placed on a CD for later use. Details of what is on the CD and how to get it are available. On WAI Day we talked to a wide audience offering: a 'tech' approach, a trigger to action, a marketing incentive and a management perspective - web sites will be more manageable, maintainable and flexible if they are made

When developing web sites, making them as accessible as possible is crucial, both to people with different kinds of disabilities as well as to all kinds of different devices, web browsers and screen readers etc. Why? Out of respect for the user, while making the web site available to as many users as possible. You need to be aware of the fact that the web site will not look the same to all visitors, not all UAs handle CSS and other things. The solution isn’t to code in HTML 3.2 and avoid using CSS and JavaScript, since that’s just plain dumb.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI™) is one of four domains of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C®). W3C was created in 1994 to develop common protocols that promote the evolution of the World Wide Web and ensure its interoperability. The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specifications are two of the most familiar outcomes of W3C's work. W3C has more than five hundred member organizations worldwide. Its domains are Architecture, User Interface, Technology and Society, and WAI, which works across the other three