Development of the AASPIRE Web Accessibility Guidelines for Autistic Web Users

Web Accessibility Guidelines

To the Editor: In “Improving Web Accessibility” (Jan. 2003, pp. 117-119), Eleanor Loiacono does an excellent job of outlining the need and methods available for addressing Web accessibility. Unfortunately, this article does not point to one additional tool: IEEE Std. 2001-2002 Recommended Practice for the Internet—Web Site Engineering, Web Site Management, and Web Site Life Cycle, which include...

Web Accessibility in Romania: The Conformance of Municipal Web Sites to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

The accessibility of public administration web sites is a key quality attribute for the successful implementation of the Information Society. The purpose of this paper is to present a second review of municipal web sites in Romania that is based on automated accessibility checking. A number of 60 web sites were evaluated against WCAG 2.0 recommendations. The analysis of results reveals a relati...

Including Heterogeneous Web Accessibility Guidelines in the Development Process

The use of web applications has extremely increased in the last few years. However, some groups of users may experience difficulties when accessing them. Many different sets of accessibility guidelines have been developed in order to improve the quality of web interfaces. Some of them are of general purpose whereas others are specific for user, application or access device characteristics. The ...

Web Accessibility Guidelines: A Lesson from the Evolving Web

The World Wide Web (Web) is in constant evolutionary change. This evolution occurs along many fronts and is led by infrastructure developers, Web designers, technologists, and users. These multiple stake–holders ensure that the Web is a heterogeneous entity, not just in the nature of the content, but in the technology and agents used to deliver and render that content. It is precisely this hete...

Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines