Is accessibility an issue in the knowledge society? Modern web applications in the light of accessibility

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Recent development in Web shows a significant trend towards more user participation, massive use of new devices including portables, and high interactivity. The user participation goes hand in hand with inclusion of all potential user groups - also with special needs. However, we claim that albeit all the effort towards accessibility, it has not yet found an appopriate reflection among stakeholders of the "Top Web Applications" nor their users. This leads to undesired causes - the business-driven Web without all user participation is not a really democratic medium and, actually, does not comply with the original characteristics of Web 2.0. The paper tries to identify perspectives of further development including standardization processes and technical obstacles behind. It also shows ways and techniques to cope with the challenge based on our own research and development in accessible graphics and dialog-based systems. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.

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Bártek, L., Ošlejšek, R., & Pitner, T. (2010). Is accessibility an issue in the knowledge society? Modern web applications in the light of accessibility. In Communications in Computer and Information Science (Vol. 112 CCIS, pp. 359–364). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_40

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