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
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
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
Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 November 2000
In November 2000 the Interactive Information Institute at RMIT University initiated and ran an International Web Accessibility Summit in Melbourne, Australia. The Summit was organised by Shar McMillan and Janine Mawhinney.
Understanding web accessiblity is increasingly important. Many organisations are not only required under the Disability Discrimination Act to provide services that are accessible to people with disabilities, but increased accessibility provides easier access to a larger market
Now Showing at the YUI Theater: WCAG 2.0 Presentation
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2007-08-16 Learn how the WCAG 2.0 Working Draft differs from WCAG 1.0, get shortcuts for using WCAG 2.0, and hear answers to common questions on W3C WAI's work in Shawn Henry's presentation to the Yahoo! User Interface Developer Network. Shawn also addresses the role of browsers and authoring tools in Web accessibility, and combining standards and usability techniques to optimize accessibility. See video with audio and slides, and text transcript. (2007-08-16)
July 2007 Update on WCAG
In What’s *Your* Story?, Ian Lloyd wants to know what made everybody get into Web accessibility. It’s a great question, and I find it very interesting to read the stories people have posted so far.
Personally I have several reasons for advocating Web accessibility. First of all an idealistic one:
* I want everybody to be able to use the Web. I am not disabled (yet), so I can (and am often forced to) muddle through sites that are badly built, but a person with a disability may not be able to. Since it is possible to build sites that almost
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Patients have a variety of complicated medical conditions which may impact on their use of the computer. The obvious one most people think of is blindness, although that is far from being the only one to consider. I have had clinicians tell me they don't need to worry about having their web site meet the needs of blind patients, since only 5% of their practice is blind. Ahem. Perhaps more relevant (although less obvious) than the moral or ethical aspects of this mentality is the legal aspect. Legally, there are various codes in different
Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users can have equal access to information and functionality. For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text-to-speech software and/or text-to-Braille hardware. When text and images are large and/or enlargable, it is easier for users with poor sight
A growing number of organisations, companies and consultants offer website accessibility audits. These audits, a type of system testing, identify accessibility problems that exist within a website, and provide advice and guidance on the steps that need to be taken to correct these problems.
A range of methods are used to audit websites for accessibility:
* Automated tools are available which can identify some of the problems that are present.
* Expert technical reviewers, knowledgeable in web design technologies and accessibility, can review a
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