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Website Accessibility and Disability Discrimination
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web accessibility
Website Accessibility and Disability Discrimination
Most of us take for granted how easy it is to use the web. We look at the visual presentation of
a web page, quickly scanning the content and navigation then homing in on the part of interest using
our eyes, the mouse and keyboard. The web works so well as a medium if you can see. Ignoring the vagaries
of a particular design and the quirks of the various browsers the web presents information in a largely
visual format that suits most of us.
Now what happens if we take away some of the things most of us take for granted. How easy is it to
use web pages when our sight is taken away, can we navigate pages when our mouse or keyboard is taken
away? Now the web doesn’t look like such an attractive place – barriers are in place.
This is the predicament of many disabled people.
It is a tragedy to discriminate against disabled people on the web simply through lack of thought,
consideration or awareness. Many websites that are designed without considering accessibility could
result in alienating visitors and losing potential sales.
The internet should be a wonderful tool for communicating, learning, interacting, shopping, entertainment
… for everyone.
Doors have been opened for disabled people with the internet providing new opportunities and more
freedom so they have potentially more to gain than the able bodied. Disabled people represent approximately
12% of the adult population in the UK, so why exclude them? The internet has huge potential for people
with disabilities!
Standards and Guidelines
To address this issue the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is a working group set up within the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) responsible for setting web accessibility guidelines. Read
more about the W3C Guidelines.
The UK Disability Discrimination Act 1995 has bought about changes in legislation resulting in the
need for companies to adhere to accessibility issues. Disability discrimination is illegal in the
UK and companies could find themselves being sued if their website is not accessible. Read
about the legal issues in the UK.
Compliance with the standards and guidelines takes a significant effort on the part of the website
designer and the content editors. The principles are straight forward but the detailed implementation
is not so straight forward. The basic principles are:
Pages that transform gracefully
Separate content from presentation.
Provide text and text equivalents of all auditory and visual content. Text can be rendered
in ways that are available to almost all browsing devices and accessible to almost all users.
Create documents that work even if the user cannot see and/or hear. Provide information that
serves the same purpose or function as audio or video in ways suited to alternate sensory channels
as well. This does not mean creating a prerecorded audio version of an entire site to make it
accessible to users who are blind. Users who are blind can use screen reader technology to render
all text information in a page.
Create documents that do not rely on one type of hardware. Pages should be usable by people
without mice, with small screens, low resolution screens, black and white screens, no screens,
with only voice or text output, etc.
Make content understandable and navigable
Making the language clear and simple
Providing understandable mechanisms for navigating within and between pages. Providing navigation
tools and orientation information in pages will maximize accessibility and usability. Not all
users can make use of visual clues such as image maps, proportional scroll bars, side-by-side
frames, or graphics that guide sighted users of graphical desktop browsers. Users also lose
contextual information when they can only view a portion of a page, either because they are
accessing the page one word at a time (speech synthesis or braille display), or one section
at a time (small display, or a magnified display). Without orientation information, users may
not be able to understand very large tables, lists, menus, etc.
There are specific checkpoints associated with all of the basic principles. Each checkpoint is set
a priority level (1, 2 or 3) so that comformance can be assessed against each level. Read
more about conformance levels.
Why you should not ignore website accessibility requirements
To ignore website accessibility raises moral issues (discrimination), business issues (why exclude
potential customers) and legal issues (in the UK and elsewhere).
For some this will already be important as government and public sector organisations are directed
to follow the accessibility standards. In the private sector there is less direct pressure as yet
as the full force of the law has not been in the UK however the momentum is gathering. Allowance is
being made for the issues the designers and web site owners face in complying fully with the standards.
What is involved in making a website accessible?
For some building in accessibility into your website will be straight-forward and can be handled
as part of the ongoing development and maintenance of the website. For others accessibility guidelines
will mean a more in depth look at the website design and technologies used, setting targets and standards
for on going maintenance.
Our commitment to accessibility
This site has been set up to create and promote an awareness of the issues involving website accessibility,
in particular, website access for disabled people.
We intend to help website owners understand accessibility issues in their own sites and provide
a place for people (disabled or not) with accessibility problems to bring their issues to the attention
of web site designers and owners.
We invite contributions to this site from people who
have accessibility issues themselves
want to promote awareness of website accessibility
want to highlight good and bad cases of websites accessibility
want to help make this site more useful
If you have a contribution to make, why not fill in our contributions form.
In addition, our Accessibility Survey will assist us in learning and understanding more about the
different problems faced by disabled people when using the Internet. So if you are disabled and would
like to contribute your concerns and ideas, we would love to hear from you. We will take an active
interest in your comments and keep our readers informed.
Please note that all personal details will remain confidential.
Home
Types of disability
Assistive technologies
The legal side (UK)
Levels of conformance
Court cases
News
Contributions
Guides
Priority Levels Checklist
Open doors to your forms
Links
Disability discrimination act 1995
Disability rights commission
W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines
W3C's
web content accessibility guidelines
Services
Web Accessibility Review Services
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