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Wednesday, December 18, 2002
W3C promotes Web access for disabled - Paul Krill, Infoworld
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday issued guidelines intended to make Web browsers and multimedia players more accessible to disabled persons. The W3C's User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 is a formal W3C Recommendation, meaning it is "essentially an Internet standard for browser and media player design," said Judy Brewer, director of Web accessibility at W3C. "The accessibility [effort is about] making sure that regardless of what kind of disability, people can still get the information from a Web site," she said.
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