Web Accessibility Standards WEB/434

Web Accessibility Standards Summary This paper will outline accessibility principles for the web and their respective goal in web design. This will also select and provide examples of accessibility standards for the web.

Web Accessibility Standards The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) was organized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with the aim to enhance accessibility in the internet for people with disabilities. This established international standard codes for the internet is called web accessibility standards. Web accessibility, according to the Introduction to Web Accessibility (2012), allows disabled persons to recognize, comprehend, navigate, interact as well as contribute ideas to the web. Aside from the helping people with...