Web Accessibility Construction: Value, Current Situation And Countermeasures

Fairness should be the intrinsic feature and deep needs of Web Information Era. As it is applied entirely and deeply in social life, the modern Information Technology, represented typically by Web Technology, has improved people to fairly get information and join social life, and also has eliminated the disparity between them. Meanwhile, because of the web access obstacles caused by its unchangeable design, it has also made a new digital gap, which has stopped the deeper realization of fairness. The traditional ideas of web design has always ignored the variety of users' accessing capability, which has brought troubles to those users who have exceptional needs about the physical function, the technical condition and the accessing environment. How could our country insure the web accessing right of exceptional users within a legal path? How could the suppliers of web products and services technically insure a same visiting experience for different users? How could the related trades specify and guide the technology development to realize the destination on fairly sharing the web? All of them are the problems that Web Accessibility construction is going to settle.The paper is based on the handicapped and the elderly' needs. It clearly proposed that Web Accessibility construction is the necessary need of insuring the online service shared fairly by all users. It is also a brand-new and irresistible task of Web Information Era. Based on this gist, the paper spreads out the discussion from three points of view about value, current situation and countermeasures. The part of...