Web Accessibility No Longer An Afterthought
Web accessibility no longer an afterthought by Tom Krazit CNET News, Dec. 14, 2009
Yahoo’s Victor Tsaran knows how much time Web designers spend agonizing over color and font-width choices when laying out an application. So when he started Yahoo’s accessibility push two years ago, he had a tough time arousing sympathy for engineers grousing about how much extra time was needed to create accessibility features.
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Seniors Flocking To The Web
MADRID (AFP)
Young people largely drove the early stages of Internet growth but in recent years the sharpest rise in Web use in developed nations has been amongst people aged 70 and over, experts said Monday. “Older adults are the fastest growing demographic on the Internet,” said Professor Vicki Hanson of the School of Computing at Scotland’s University of Dundee on the opening day of a global World Wide Web conference in Madrid.
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