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Web accessibility has become more of a challenge in the past few years.
It's not that accessibility is difficult. In fact, 'markup languages' are ideal for it. By describing content rather than layout, these languages left presentation up to the browser. A speech browser would know how a paragraph differed from a list or a headline, and where to go for verbal descriptions of images, for example.
Multimedia, plug-ins, and browser wars changed all that. Commercial competition meant emphasizing the known (paper or video or shopping carts) over the unknown (alternative text or synchronized media).
Changes during 1999-2000 re-awakened interest in accessibility. In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was applied to websites receiving government funding, beginning in 2001, and palmtop computers and Web-accessible pagers made their first real impact on the Internet. Together, the interest in clear and direct content grew once again.
In the coming years, OrbitAccess will use this page to present cases of improved accessibility that we have reviewed or evaluated.
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