Web Accessibility

2011 ◽  
pp. 172-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Harper ◽  
Yeliz Yesilada
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Web Usability ◽  
Universal Accessibility ◽  
The World

Web accessibility conjures the vision of designers, technologists, and researchers valiantly making the World–Wide–Web (Web) open to disabled users. While this maybe true in part, the reality is a little different. Indeed, Web accessibility is actually about correcting our past mistakes by making the current Web fulfill the original Web vision of access for all. It just so happens that in the process of trying to re-engineer these corrections, that have for the most part ignored, we may solve a number of ‘larger–scale’ usability issues faced by every Web user. Indeed, by understanding disabled–user’s interaction we enhance our understanding of all users operating in constrained modalities where the user is disabled by both environment and technology. It is for this reason that Web accessibility is a natural preface to wider Web usability and universal accessibility, it is also why ‘main–stream’ technologist take it so seriously and understand its cross-over benefits.

Disability and mobile Internet

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Expanded Concept

As the World Wide Web turns 25, it is an appropriate time to ask: where are we are now with disability and the Internet? A good place to look is in the burgeoning area of Internet and mobile technology. Accordingly, this paper explores the issues and prospect for disability and mobile Internet. It provides a brief history of the entwined nature of the rise of disability and the Internet, discusses the emergence of mobile Internets, and then turns to a discussion of mobile Web accessibility. It concludes by noting the limits of mobile Web accessibility, for its struggle to adopt an expanded concept of disability — but also because of growing complexity of mobile Internets.

Accessibility of the Ten Most Frequently Used Internet Career Sites

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Paul D. Clawson ◽  
Amy L. Skinner
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
The World

The accessibility of the ten most frequently visited career-sites was investigated. The career sites were chosen based on the number of unique visitors that accessed the sites over a period of one month. The criteria for accessibility included the guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative and were measured using Bobby 3.2 software by CAST. The results indicate that none of the Careers sites met accessibility criteria established by the World Wide Web Consortium.

scholarly journals Unified mobile accessibility guidelines (UMAG)

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Néstor Apolo LÓPEZ-GONZÁLEZ ◽  
Beatriz Adriana GONZÁLEZ-BELTRÁN
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
User Experience ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Mobile Environment ◽  
Software Product ◽  
The World ◽  
Mobile Accessibility ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines

The attributes of a software product such as usability and accessibility are crucial, they allow the user to reach his/her goals, and additionally they give a better user experience. The first of them, usability, is oriented to satisfy the needs of the user with average capabilities and the second, accessibility is related to the users with disabilities. There is a lot of work published about web accessibility but, it is not the same case for mobile accessibility. This paper focuses on mobile accessibility guidelines, its overall aim consists of a set of unified mobile accessibility guidelines, based on guidelines such as Android, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The method consisted of: Examine and organize the existent guidelines; find elements/components and properties/attributes related to them; verify if the guideline applies to the mobile environment then, unify guidelines if there are two or more of them. The result of this work consists of a set of unified guidelines to develop a mobile accessibility guidelines standard.

scholarly journals What the Web Has Wrought

Informatics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Antony Bryant
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Universal Accessibility ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

In 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed the development of ‘a large hypertext database with typed links’, which eventually became The World Wide Web. It was rightly heralded at the time as a significant development and a boon for one-and-all as the digital age flourished both in terms of universal accessibility and affordability. The general anticipation was that this could herald an era of universal friendship and knowledge-sharing, ushering in global cooperation and mutual regard. In November 2019, marking 30 years of the Web, Berners-Lee lamented that its initial promise was being largely undermined, and that we were in danger of heading towards a ‘digital dystopia’: What happened?

Dancing Across the World Wide Web: Advocacy in the 21st Century

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Williams Cronin ◽  
Ty Tedmon-Jones ◽  
Lora Wilson Mau
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World

THE EUROPEAN UNION FORUM ON KIDS' SAFETY IN INTERNET SIF 2019

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
D. A. Bogdanova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Internet Forum ◽  
The World

The article provides an overview of the activities of the European Union Forum on kids' safety in Internet — Safer Internet Forum (SIF) 2019, which was held in Brussels, Belgium, in November 2019. The current Internet risks addressed by the World Wide Web users, especially children, are described.

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