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> September 1999
Web Access for People with Disabilities
Judy Rice (Judy_Rice@byu.edu)
September 22, 1999 — Fidelity, Salt Lake
Judy Rice gave an excellent presentation on Designing Web Pages For Special Populations. The notes can be found at: www.byu.edu/ipt/rice/spec_pop/handout2.html.
Synopsis:
People with disabilities are increasingly being prevented from accessing Web
pages because of insensitively designed pages and assistive technologies which
are incapable of reading or navigating Web sites. We as creators and citizens
of this Web world need to become aware of some of the barriers we are erecting
and how to avoid them. This presentation will demonstrate how different types
of disabilities can impede Web, discuss the legal, moral, and business reasons
for designing universally accessible Web sites, review the W3C Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI) guidelines, and provide recommendations for Web designers
to ensure that their sites can be accessed by all people.
Biography:
Judy is presently a doctoral candidate in the Instructional Technology and
Psychology program at Brigham Young University. Her dissertation is on The
Identification of Design Elements and User Profiles for Dynamically Adaptive
Web Documents. She has presented papers at numerous conferences on Web design
and usability testing, creating and evaluating Web-based instruction, designing
accessible Web sites for international or impaired populations as well as
using the Web in learning environments. Recently she has served on a national
panel developing certification tests for Webmasters. Her materials and tutorials
are used in courses at various universities and the U.S. Government has included
her paper on designing large-scale Web sites as part of their white-paper
on Web site design. Several of her Web projects have received national recognition
and awards.