Federal web site accessibility for people with disabilities

ET Loiacono, S McCoy, W Chin - IT professional, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires organizations to provide physical access to
people with disabilities. With the advent of the Web, federal legislation may extend into …

Improving web accessibility: a study of webmaster perceptions

J Lazar, A Dudley-Sponaugle, KD Greenidge - Computers in human …, 2004 - Elsevier
Large percentages of web sites continue to be inaccessible to people with disabilities. Since
tools and guidelines are available to help designers and webmasters in making their web …

Accessibility of Alabama government web sites

A Potter - Journal of Government Information, 2002 - Elsevier
As the World Wide Web has assumed an increasingly important role in providing
government information and services, the need to extend these resources to the portion of …

Assessing the accessibility of fifty United States government Web pages: Using Bobby to check on Uncle Sam

J Ellison - First Monday, 2004 - firstmonday.org
This study evaluates the current accessibility of US Government Web pages for people with
disabilities. Several Federal laws, and specifically Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act …

[PDF][PDF] Accessibility and web design: Why does it matter?

R Godwin-Jones - 2001 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
The passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 has had a major impact on
the physical infrastructure of college campuses in the US. Less well-known is the growing …

Setting the standard: Section 508 could have an impact on private sector Web sites through the Americans with Disabilities Act

L Poynter - Ga. St. UL Rev., 2002 - HeinOnline
Federal regulations now require that federal government Web sites be accessible to people
with disabilities.'In 1998, former President Bill Clinton signed the Workforce Investment Act …

A longitudinal evaluation of accessibility: higher education web sites

S Hackett, B Parmanto - Internet Research, 2005 - emerald.com
Purpose–Using Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, higher education web sites were
retrospectively analyzed to study the effects that technological advances in web design have …

Snapshot—Ten years after the law: A survey of the current status of university Web accessibility

SK Krach - Journal of Special Education Technology, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The changing interpretation of laws regarding individuals with disabilities requires Web sites
to be accessible by assistive technology devices. This study examined the current …

Accessibility of American university special education departments' web sites

R Ringlaben, M Bray, A Packard - Universal Access in the Information …, 2014 - Springer
In the last 20 years, the World Wide Web (Web) has gone from being the means of
disseminating information for a few scientists to a universal means of disseminating …

Web accessibility for people with disabilities: An introduction for web developers

J Carter, M Markel - Writing and Speaking in the Technology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
There are four main categories of disabilities that affect a person's ability to use the web:
mobility, including inability to operate a keyboard/mouse; deaf including diminished hearing; …