Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Accessibility For All Presentation Comments
Our class listened to Mr. Sullivan speak on October 2. In his presentation, I learned about web accessibility guidelines, ensuring web accessibility, and common adaptive software. Web accessibility is basically making web pages accessible to all users including those using adaptive hardware and software. He also talked about how web accessibility is required by the law and mentioned "The American's with Disability's Act" and "The Telecommunications Act of 1996". The "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" (WCAG) was adopted by World Wide Web Consortium in 1999. This made content accessible mainly for disabled users. Devices used for disabled people to access the internet include: Portable Data Assistants and Refreshable Braille Display. Mr. Sullivan was very passionate about all of this information and it was interesting to listen to.
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3 comments:
Good job. I believe Mr. Sullivan's presentation open may people's eyes as to just what people with disabilities can do.
Great job Matt on the presentation post.
Mr. Sullivan's presentation taught me more about the importance of accomodations. It also brought to my knowledge that there are more and more that we need to know how to provide.
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