Why the article is helpful

• Guidelines on how users with disabilities navigate the web
• Tools and approaches that people with different disabilities use to browse the web and the design barriers they encounter
• Principles for creating accessible websites, web applications, browsers, and other web tools

Created by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, this resource provided a brief overview of how people with disabilities use the web and highlights the wide range of user abilities (accounting for visual, hearing, motor, and cognitive impairment). The specific web tools used by people with disabilities (including text-to-speech and voice recognition) were discussed, and accessibility for the benefit of all users is promoted. The resource was intended to help developers, designers, and others understand the barriers to accessibility and help design around them using the guidelines provided.

Links to article

• Web Accessibility Initiative