An Accessible Web
Web resources accessible to people with disabilities
Why: Equality. Spinoffs for "temporarily able-bodied persons"
Barriers: Lack of standards, lack of awareness, misuse of HTML
How: WAI, Institutional policies
Familiarisation: WAI pages
Technologies
- Style sheets: control over appearance needed by designers, but with end user ability to change appearance (not achievable with images)
- Aural style sheets: e.g. <STRONG> rendered as LOUD voice, or pause before phrase, <DT>, <DD> rendered using male / female voices, columns in tables using left and right stereo channels