Websites make poor showing on e-accessibility

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Websites make poor showing on e-accessibility

11-29-2005, 11:17 AM,

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Websites make poor showing on e-accessibility

Quote:The vast majority of public service websites in Europe are failing to meet international e-accessibility standards...

Most of the websites fell down in the area of providing suitable text alternatives for images on their sites, with a large number of websites also failing to fully explain the relationship between frames on a website.

...there is growing concern about whether new high-tech products and services are fully accessible, especially to elderly people and people with disabilities.

full article: http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,38...603,00.htm

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