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A Framework for Evaluating Barriers to Accessibility, Usability and Fit for Purpose
Published in Philip D. Bust, Contemporary Ergonomics 2006, 2020
Suzette Keith, Gill Whitney, William Wong
The W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines focus on whether the content is accessible to a person with a disability. These guidelines offer 14 principles of accessibility of web-content design, describing both the problems and possible design solutions. They address system level elements such as the use of mark up and style sheets as well as presentational issues of text and graphics. A checklist tool included with the Guidelines is arranged according to three levels of priority. Automated checking tools are available through the internet and simplify the accessibility assessment; however some manual checks are also essential.
Portal Collaboration, Knowledge Management, and Personalization
Published in Shailesh Kumar Shivakumar, and User Experience Platforms, 2015
Web content consists of the full array of data delivered through the portal such as static HTML, CMS content or XML pages. It is important to note that on a typical portal page, only a portion of the page need be personalized. In other words, some parts of the page are static, and rest of the page can be personalized at portlet level or content fragment level.
Moving toward a universally accessible web: Web accessibility and education
Published in Assistive Technology, 2019
Having said that, it is also worthwhile noting that the term ‘accessibility’ is often too narrowly understood as applying only to people with disabilities. But it is best thought of in a broader context that encompasses all users. As Mankoff, Fait, and Tran (2005) noted, “Web accessibility involves making web content available to all individuals, regardless of any disabilities or environmental constraints they experience” (p. 41). Or as Beddow, Kettler, and Elliott (2008) put it, ‘accessibility’ should be defined as “the extent to which an environment, product, or service eliminates barriers and permits equal access to all components and services for all individuals” (p. 1). These understandings of accessibility are, of course, completely consonant with Berners-Lee’s original vision, which included the requirement of universality of access.