Interdependent components of web accessibility

  • Authors:
  • Wendy A. Chisholm;Shawn Lawton Henry

  • Affiliations:
  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Cambridge, MA;World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • W4A '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Increasingly, the Web is providing unprecedented access to information and interaction for people with disabilities. However, the Web will not be equally accessible, allowing people with disabilities to access and contribute to the Web, until:• Authoring tools and development environments (including content managements systems such as blogging applications) produce accessible Web content and have accessible interfaces;• Browsers, multimedia players and assistive technologies provide a completely usable and accessible experience;Content is designed to be accessible.Web accessibility relies on tools that are designed to work together and support the needs of the people who use them. This paper describes how Web accessibility depends on several components working together. It demonstrates the relationship between the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG).