Week+11

1. ** How would you describe web accessibility? ** From my personal understanding, and after reading the provided articles, web accessibility means that any individual can or should be able to access the questioned website, since individuals with disabilities at end of the day should deduce the same amount of information and same content of the website as would individuals with full abilities, disregarding the method the information or the content is presented. Individuals with visual impairment or blind, deaf, motor disability, and cognitive disability. For visual impairment screen readers are very effective, as for the case of color blindness the avoidance of using green or red colors. Deaf individuals can read the text also the media in the website has the option if captions. Individuals with motor disabilities are provided with software that could trace the eye movement acting as the mouse. Also individuals with full abilities could use the same benefits, from my personal experience I like the use of “read out load” option in the adobe reader as it reads the lengthy articles and that way I can just listened as some people learn better when they hear the information.
 * 2. **** Who do you think benefits form accessible websites and how? **

3. ** Do you think your website/blog should be accessible? Should all Canadian websites? ** Absolutely, educational facilities are open to everybody therefore the information should be presentable for everybody. I totally agree that all Canadian websites should be accessible, I would also suggest that the Canadian government could use the tax right off or tax reduction for private businesses as it would be a motivation for them, as it the case when they hire individuals with disabilities.

4. ** What do you think is the biggest challenge of making a website accessible? ** I think the biggest challenge would be financially. At the present time we are in the period of an economic crisis therefore companies tend to avoid investing and rather work with what they have. Also the demand is low making the supply low and the price of these software’s extremely high by the developers. Moreover there are many different disabilities that a website, that is fully accessible, would have to meet and make it easier. From a personal point of view I think if the government develops some programs that motivate website developers and operators then we will be attacking this problem.