WEB ACCESSIBILITY - Portuguese Web Accesibility with WCAG-1.0 and WCAG-2.0

Ramiro Gonçalves, José Martins, Jorge Pereira, Henrique Mamede

2010

Abstract

Web accessibility is growing in importance as each day goes by. Alongside with this growth, also the need of access to web resources, by those with some sort of disability, is increasing. The web is very important for spreading information and for the interaction between the various society elements. Given this, it’s mandatory that the web presents itself as a totally accessible resource, so that it can help the disable citizens in their integration within the society. This obligation should be even bigger for the enterprises because, in their majority, the web is used as a marketing and business platform. This document is meant to be a position paper regarding the comparison of results between web accessibility evaluations of the Portuguese websites using version 1 and version 2 of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

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in Harvard Style

Gonçalves R., Martins J., Pereira J. and Mamede H. (2010). WEB ACCESSIBILITY - Portuguese Web Accesibility with WCAG-1.0 and WCAG-2.0 . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-674-025-2, pages 248-251. DOI: 10.5220/0002858702480251


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist10,
author={Ramiro Gonçalves and José Martins and Jorge Pereira and Henrique Mamede},
title={WEB ACCESSIBILITY - Portuguese Web Accesibility with WCAG-1.0 and WCAG-2.0},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2010},
pages={248-251},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002858702480251},
isbn={978-989-674-025-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - WEB ACCESSIBILITY - Portuguese Web Accesibility with WCAG-1.0 and WCAG-2.0
SN - 978-989-674-025-2
AU - Gonçalves R.
AU - Martins J.
AU - Pereira J.
AU - Mamede H.
PY - 2010
SP - 248
EP - 251
DO - 10.5220/0002858702480251