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Jonathan Lazar on Accessible Web Design for People with Disabilities

November 8th, 2011

Despite the existing resources, knowledge, and regulations, many categories of web sites continue to be inaccessible for people with perceptual and motor disabilities. 90% of federal government web sites, many social media tools, many e-commerce web sites, and online employment applications are often inaccessible, denying people with disabilities access to the complete power of the web. In this presentation Dr. Jonathan Lazar — Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University — provides an overview of web accessibility for people with disabilities, including the technical standards and laws, as well as reporting on recent research projects documenting how inaccessible web sites lead to various forms of discrimination against people with disabilities.

Slides available here. A transcript can be downloaded here.

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  • 1. Timoth Isean  |  March 7th, 2018 at 6:29 am

    this will be a nice initiative for disable people,It a remarkable beginning and I personally appreciate. As a human begin it is our ethical responsibility to works for mankind.

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