Accessibility Guidelines
Section 7.1 of the UNEweb Policy states that users of the UNEweb should pay attention to the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. This Act requires that all web pages be accessible to users with a disability.
What does web accessibility mean?
This means that web content should be available to ALL users, whatever they are browsing on the web using a normal web browser or screen/voice reader (if they are sight impaired), or a text browser, or a mobile phone, etc. Also that content should be available even if they are operating under constraints such as noisy surroundings, under- or over-illumisnated rooms or in a hands-free environment.
UNE has a LEGAL obligation to ensure that all users have full and independent access to web content.
In order to help you wade through the mass of information available on accessibility, please download and read the attached document from the W3C entitled "Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0". This is a list of checkpoints for web developers which can be used to review a page or site for accessibility. UNE webwriters MUST at least make every effort to satisfy Priority 1 checkpoints.
For more information visit the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (http://www.w3.org/WAI/)