Regulatory issues. (accessibility of World Wide Web sites to the disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act)
Security Management, September, 1998
The World Wide Web Consortium has launched the Web Accessibility Initiative to expand accessibility to people with disabilities. The initiative includes two sets of voluntary guidelines for Web page authors and Web browser manufacturers to make their products more accessible to disabled users. For instance, the guidelines suggest the use of alternative tags to identify and describe images for the benefit of people with vision disabilities and closed captioning or transcripts for audio files or movie clips for the hearing impaired.
ADA. For most people, the Web is an exciting mixture of graphics and melodies, even animated clips and embedded applications. But for people with disabilities, much of this technology makes information inaccessible. Must Web sites be accessible...
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