Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities
This is a great guide that shows you how and why to make your Web site accessible to people with disabilities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities
Part I: The Web and People with Disabilities
Chapter List
- Chapter 1: Introducing Web Accessibility
- Chapter 2: Legal Requirements, Policies and Standards
- Chapter 3: Using Standards and Guidelines
- Chapter 4: Identifying Web Accessibility Barriers
Chapter 1 introduces you to the world of Web accessibility involving people with disabilities. You will see how the level of awareness has been raised regarding the information needs of people with disabilities and how they are directly affected by elements of the World Wide Web that are currently inaccessible to them.
In this chapter, you will get a sense of the world s population of people with disabilities and better understand their user needs in the information society. In turn, this information will help you appreciate how developing an accessible Web for them now will ensure their continued use of it in the future.
Why Make Your Site Accessible?
The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply the Web) has long surpassed original predictions that it would be the next killer app of the Internet. What started out as the home of computer gurus is now an integral part of human society. The Web has become a commodity that everyone has to have and everyone needs to use because it is built upon the most important commodity of the next millennium: information.
Beginning with the launch of the Web Accessibility Initiative (or WAI, pronounced way ) in April 1997, it became clear that building and redesigning the Web to be accessible to people with disabilities would become an important directive of the World Wide Web Consortium
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