Lab+11


 * 1. How would you describe web accessibility?**

Web accessibility allows individuals of all ages to surf the web independently. This is beneficiary to individuals with disability casing lack of mobility and impairment. Such individuals can surf the web and easily access information from media content without a sense of impairment or feeling separate from the norms of society. Web accessibility is a great feature of the internet that unites individuals in society by allowing all individuals to feel equal regardless of any form of impairment or disability.


 * 2. Who do you think benefits from accessible websites and how?**

Practically everyone benefits from accessible websites. However, the most beneficiary are people with disabilities. Individuals that are blind can use screen readers which read content loud for them. Screen readers also describe visual pictures and photographs for individuals. Individuals with minor visual impairments can increase font size and pictures sizes enabling them to see everything proportionately. There are many products now available for people with motor disabilities. Such products can adjust the computer or mouse to their desired ways.


 * 3. Do you think your website/blog should be accessible? Should all Canadian websites?**

Theoretically, I believe all universal websites should be accessible. In practice however, it seems highly unlikely for all websites to be accessible. I feel all government regulated websites and corporation websites should indefinitely be accessible. I would advocate for personal websites to step in the right direction by becoming accessible. Canadian economy and society is far too technologically advance for our websites to not be accessible, thus I believe all Canadian websites should be accessible for all.


 * 4. What do you think is the biggest challenge of making a website accessible?**

The simple biggest challenge of creating a website accessible is being able to meet all the types of disabilities and their spectrums. To select one disability over another is unfair practice. How would one access which disability should be targeted to make accessible while other overlooked? Moreover, certain websites are built to be visually expressive; a website full of videos would fail to provide that service in an auditory format.