Web Equity Issues
There are over half a billion people in the world who are disabled,
and although there are many commendable efforts on the Internet to
support the cause of improving website accessibility for these people,
the vast majority of websites do not follow the recommended guidelines
to provide user friendly pages for the disabled (Information society,
author unknown, 1998). As technology and electronic interactive
services become a larger part of our everyday living, these groups
risk severe social exclusion as a consequence of the myriad of
technical barriers they face when using the Internet (Valdes, L, 2003).
Nowadays, nearly all errands, such as banking, shopping, learning, and
government services can be handled through the use of the Internet.
Most of these barriers can be easily avoided if the designers follow
some simple guidelines, such as those in the "HREOC World Wide Web
Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes".
Presently, many companies and businesses consider the use of the web
to provide information and services electronically, as it has "the
potential to provide equal access for people with a disability; and to
provide access more broadly, more cheaply and more quickly than is
otherwise possible using other formats." (HREOC).People with a
disability now have a range of equipment and software that makes it
possible for them to access and understand information on the
Internet, and publication on the Internet should provide a simple and
effective means of obtaining information that would otherwise be more
difficult to acquire physically through premises, because of their
disability. Howev...
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