Accessibility and the Web
Last week I gave a presentation about the importance of IA to an international group of scientists and science journalists. Afterwards, I hung out with some folks from Panama’s Secretariat for Science and Technology (SENACYT), and we came around to the topic of Web accessibility.
While this is an important subject all over the world, some countries (the US, for example) do a better job than others of requiring businesses and governments to adhere to accessibility standards that give folks with physical disabilities a fair shot at getting everyday tasks done. In Panama we are nowhere near as accessibility-aware as the US is, but it’s good to know that the folks at SENACYT are looking into it.
In a moment of Jung-style synchronicity, I just came across this article at webreference.com, which does a great job of introducing the topic.
July 14, 2004 | Archived in Design, Information Architecture
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