Title: Designing web accessibility

Authors: Ruben Arrizabalaga, Tim Smithers

Addresses: Department Informatica, Universidad de Mondragon, Onati, E-20560, Spain. ' Department Informatica, Universidad de Mondragon, Onati, E-20560, Spain.

Abstract: The majority of websites have not been designed to make them accessible to all the people for whom they are intended. Nowadays, eEurope initiative (European Commission-eEurope, 2005), wants the institutions to become aware of the necessity of accessibility in websites but without taking care of problems like, who will validate this website? Could this validation be automatic?

Keywords: website accessibility; website design; W3C; section-508; eEurope; disabilities; WAI; usability; WWW; world wide web; HTML; CSS; validation; accessibility design.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2005.006064

International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2005 Vol.1 No.2, pp.214 - 225

Published online: 30 Jan 2005 *

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