Topic: An Overview of Web Accessibility And User Interface Design

Abstract

The web has become a key recourse for information, commerce, education, entertainment and government services. However, Some people may have difficulty understand, navigate and interact with the web due to their physical or mental disabilities. Thus, accessibility has become a critical concern and a large research area in the field of web applications design and development. In this presentation, we will review the literature on web accessibility's issues and requirements for users with disabilities. We will discuss some challenging and barriers that faced disabled users with main types of disabilities. We will look at some of the recent research and related works that have been done so far. Also, we will highlight existing assistive technologies that proposed to enhance accessibility for each type of disability. We will give an overview of recommendations, principles and standers the have been proposed by some organizations and W3C to increase the accessibility in user interface design.