Accessibility and Barrier-Free Web Design

The Right to Web and Information Accessibility

While we are enjoying the convenience of a high-speed network and the availability of information from the web, have we ever thought of other people in this world who cannot access this information due to limitations in web accessibility? These people include the visually impaired, the disabled as well as those who are using hand-held devices such as mobile telephones to access the network.

For example, the visually impaired people rely on some software to translate the text in a web page into Braille which they can read with their fingers. Therefore, web pages with a lot of pictures cannot be translated into Braille unless the pictures have an alternative description in text format.

It is now becoming everyone's right to have access to information on the web. For this reason 'Navega Bem' is strongly advocating barrier-free web sites.

Does your site validate as an interoperable web page with the 'World Wide Web Consortium'? Ours does! W3C CSS & W3C XHTML.

Test your web site for CSS and XHTML validation here:
CSS Validation • XHTML Validation

When by law must a site be accessible by? Read more here.