Wednesday, September 19, 2007

1. Introduction

The World Wide Web is the only uncensored medium where it is almost impossible to impose monitoring or regulations. The Web is only attractive if we can see, hear, read, watch, scan pages quickly and navigate with ease. If we lose these abilities the Web will loose all or part of its attractiveness. Despite the efforts of the government, and organisations and charities such as the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Web Access Centre (RNIB), Watchfire and many more the large part of the web remains inaccessible.

After the collapse of dot-com in 2001 some of the large companies and corporations came together to find out what to do to survive. The concept of web 2.0 was born as a result and the first Web.2.0 Conference took place in 2004.

Chapter one of this report lays out the aims and objectives of the project. Chapter 3 and chapter 4 briefly explain the areas to be investigated. Chapter 4 will name some of the related research which has been done by others. Chapter 5 will explain the likely evaluation strategies to be considered. Chapter 6 will list some of the main background material which would be used as primary source. Chapter 7 and 8 will contain bibliography and resources used for this report respectively.

Chapter two of this report will introduce you with disability, accessibility what is it and why it matters, the law and the businesses. Chapter 3 explains the concept of Web 2.0. Chapter 4 will deal with Web 2.0 and accessibility.. Chapter 5 will explain the the methods of designing Web 2.0 accessible pages by following the WAI's WCAG guidelines. Chapter 6 will list some of the main background material which have been used as primary source for this report and chapter 7 will contain resources used for this report respectively.

1. 2. Aims and Objectives

The aims and objectives of this research project are to investigate and analyze the concept of Web 2.0 and its possibility of improving accessibility. How disabled people access the web and what web designers and developers of web technologies can do to make the Web more accessible. After the initial research, Web 2.0 standard pages will be designed with the aim to test accessibility towards a wide range of users.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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