What is web accessibility?

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging ...more.

How do you make your site accessible?

On May 5, 1999, the W3C released a recommendation on Web Content Accessibility which are intented to guide site owners conducting accessibility reviews. The specification contains fourteen guidelines, which comprise the general principles of accessible design. Each guideline is associated with one or more checkpoints that describe how to apply that guideline to particular features of a Web page.

The guidlelines are presented in the context of three levels of compliance.

With interpretation and experience these guidelines can be applied to a website to ensure it is accessible to a degree defined by the owner of the website.

The Disabilities Discrimination Act embodied some of these principles in European law. Organisations no have some reponsibility to make their websites accessible ..more.