Accessibility

Accessibility is the power of the universality of the Web. The access of all people, regardless of the limits of their abilities, is a fundamental aspect.

It is the inclusive practice of ensuring that no barriers prevent interaction or access to websites on the World Wide Web by people with different physical abilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed.

About Accessibility:

Access to information and communication technologies, including the Web, is defined as a basic human right in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD).

The needs that Web accessibility aims to address include:

• Visual: Visual impairments including blindness, several common types of low vision and poor eyesight, various types of color blindness;
• Motor Skills/Mobility: e.g., difficulty or inability to use hands, including tremors, muscle slowness, loss of control of fine muscles, etc., due to conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, stroke;
• Hearing: deafness or hearing problems, including people with hearing problems;
• Seizures: Photo of epilepsy…