Click
on the arrows below to view the answers
What does the Web Accessibility Initiative want to do? |
 |
What can people with disabilities now do on the Internet? |
 |
What does making content more uniform on the web mean? |
 |
|
|
|
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACCESS TO THE WEB
Grants
From NSF, along with Department of Education efforts, are helping to 
ensure
information on the World Wide Web is more widely accessible to people
with disabilities.
In a project called the Web Accessibility Initiative, attempts to make
information and services on the World Wide Web more available and accessible
are being realized, allowing disabled persons to
work, conduct commerce, do research and participate in educational efforts
and social interactions more fully.
NSF's role has been to make sure web content is more uniform, allowing
web browsers to work with more web sites. As
part of a three-year project, progress has been made already, as people
with disabilities are now able to use alternate browsing capabilities
and to gain access to increasingly larger volumes of information on the
web.
NSF has contributed about two-thirds (the Department of Education about
one-third) of the federal government’s effort. Private industry, some
European Union countries and Japan have also made significant contributions
to this project.
