Accessibility and Usability of Web Content and Applications

Every day the Internet brings new communication, informational and learning experiences to rapidly expanding user communities. Interactive and hypermedia applications are increasingly applied in contexts ranging from news and thematic blogs to on-line libraries and structured educational content. Furthermore, new Web 2.0 applications such as Wikipedia or Facebook encourage the active participation of users worldwide, in a collaborative and cooperative way. This opens extraordinary vistas for the differently-abled, provided that interactive systems and content are properly designed and delivered. Accessibility is a basic requirement for every system or product in order to guarantee equal access, opportunity and use to all, including the ABstRACt

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