Shadi Abou-Zahra
Shawn Lawton Henry
ABSTRACT
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops strategies, guidelines, and resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. This includes ensuring that core web technologies such as HTML and CSS provide support for accessibility; developing complementary web specifications to support accessibility, such as WAI-ARIA and IndieUI; and maintaining a set of internationally recognized guidelines that define accessibility criteria for web authoring tools such as content management systems and code editors, for user agents such as web browsers and media players, and for web content including text, images, scripts, audio-visual media, and more. This communication paper explores the impact on these essential components of web accessibility as the Web rapidly evolves into an increasingly mobile and ubiquitous medium, and highlights opportunities for research and development to help make the Web universally accessible to all users.
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) http://www.w3.org/WAI/Google Scholar
- Essential Components of Web Accessibility http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/components.phpGoogle Scholar
- UN Global Audit of Web Accessibility http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/gawanomensa.htmGoogle Scholar
- W3C HTML5 Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/Google Scholar
- W3C CSS Specification http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/Google Scholar
- Standards for Web Applications on Mobile http://www.w3.org/Mobile/mobile-web-app-state/Google Scholar
- WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Google Scholar
- W3C HTML Accessibility Task Force http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/html-task-forceGoogle Scholar
- HTML5 Multimedia Accessibility http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/MultimediaAccessibiltyGoogle Scholar
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/ariaGoogle Scholar
- Independent User Interfaces (IndieUI) http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/indieuiGoogle Scholar
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcagGoogle Scholar
- Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/Google Scholar
- User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/uaagGoogle Scholar
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atagGoogle Scholar
- WAI Mobile Accessibility Overview http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/Google Scholar
- WAI Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/Google Scholar
- WAI Research Symposium on Mobile Accessibility http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/mobile/Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Essential components of mobile web accessibility
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