Origin

Unlike other situations other CS-SIS members may commonly encounter, web accessibility awareness does not usually begin with a memo from a University Disability Resource Center.  Moreover, whether a given set of legal standards are applicable to any given institution are unclear and standards are inconsistently enforced. For more information about the law, refer to Assistive Technology -- Understanding the Law and the section on web accessibility.

The rest of this page will be devoted to voluntary efforts to make web pages accessible.

Identifying the Right Standard

Most readers (to the extent that they have heard of web accessibility at all

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