Week+ELEVEN

__Week 11:__ Glen Farrelly: Questions on Usability and Accessibility One of my future colleagues at University of Toronto's Faculty of Information is doing research on usability professionals' attention to issues of accessibility in web design. Given that Ontario is considering policy that government communications are accessible to various groups by 2011 and will try to mandate similar accessibility concerns in the private sector in 2013, understanding accessibility concerns will become a key concern for communication professionals in the very near future.

Glen's asking a series of questions to usability professionals in interviews - his abbreviated list is below. Answer the below questions briefly in consideration of the material on these two websites:

[|**http://www.webaim.org/intro/**]**- basic introduction to various forms of accessibility in web communications** [|**http://www.uiaccess.com/accessucd/overview.html**]**- integrating accessibility in design

1. How would you describe web accessibility?**
 * I would say web accessibility is to make it possible for people with disabilities to access the web easily. For example people with visual or hearing disabilities or motor impairment. So it is important for a web to be easily accessed for people with disabilities. **


 * 2. Who do you think benefits from accessible websites and how?**
 * I think people with disabilities would benefit from accessible websites because those websites are easily obtained for them. It is not only the disable people who can benefit from the web accessibility, every one will because these web sites provide us with the most organized and clear illustrations and instructions, which can reduce our time with searching for the right direction. **


 * 3. Do you think your website/blog should be accessible? Should all Canadian websites?**
 * Our websites should also be as accessible as possible so everyone can easily go through our page. Our webpage contains course materials for other classmates to see, making it accessible will help the disable ones that are in our class to also be apart of us. Canadian websites should even be more accessible because their target group is not just for a particular part of audience; it is for the whole Canadians or even the world audiences. These websites should definitely be web accessible so the disable Canadian can feel that they are considered and not left out. **

The biggest challenge I think in making a website accessible is that the designer must do many kind of researches to understand the actual need and how the site can be accessible people with all kinds of disabilities. Designer must be educated in a way that they can fully understand how to create a website that is user friendly.
 * 4. What do you think is the biggest challenge of making a website accessible?**

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