Christopher Power
ABSTRACT
The advent of Web 2.0 technologies, and the increased participation of users in personalized web experiences, has created a need for new web authoring tools intended for use by non-professional web authors. These tools represent a prime opportunity for including accessibility features early in the tool design process. The results from an accessibility evaluation of one of these tools demonstrates that such opportunities could be easily missed.
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- Accessibility in non-professional web authoring tools: a missed web 2.0 opportunity?
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