Archive for September, 2010

Yes, all users should have an equal rights to access their e-commerce services. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a document titled Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization: Overview (w3.org). There are four factors: social, technical, financial, and legal & policy related to Web accessibility & e-commerce. Since the Web is increasingly popular as

an essential resource for many aspects of life: education, employment, government, commerce, health care, recreation, social interaction, and more. The Web is used not only for receiving information, but also for providing information and interacting with society. Therefore, it is essential that the Web be accessible in order to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with disabilities.

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) accessibility is a common term to make accessible technology for all users inclusively. ICT is not exclusive for normal people only. Standardization has an important rules. Do you hate standardization?

The accessibility standards should ensure that every user has an easy access to public electronic information and services with as minimal as possible technical barriers. The government and mandatory side should adopt the law or some rules and promote the accessibility standards. Educated people should help this e-accessibility movement to remove as much as available barriers. Especially for disabled and elderly people. Web accessibility is one of those technologies.

Open the information society now.

How do a simple punctuation may help Web usability? One of the most popular screen reader, a proprietary, Job Access With Speech (JAWS) for Windows, has a custom setting to read some punctuations. JAWS user guide by indiana.edu published this information.

Punctuation: this setting has four levels of verbosity-most, some, all, or none. If you choose most, the majority of punctuation marks will be announced by JAWS. If you choose None, JAWS won’t announce any punctuation, but the voice inflection will indicate when a sentence starts, ends, when there is a question mark or an exclamation point.

Users may choose their preferences. How to optimize it?