01.11.2007 | Editorial
Building the Mobile Web: rediscovering accessibility?
Erschienen in: Universal Access in the Information Society | Ausgabe 3/2007
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After the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative at the World Wide Web Conference 2005, awareness is emerging that, today, mobile Web access suffers from interoperability and usability problems that make the Web difficult to use. With the move to small screen size, low bandwidth, and different operating modalities, technology is in effect simulating the sensory and cognitive impairments experienced by disabled users within the wider population of mobile device users. The Third International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A 2006) was targeted to bring together different communities working on similar problems to share ideas, discuss overlaps, and make the fledging mobile Web community aware of accessibility work that may have been overlooked. The main question asked was:…“Is engineering, designing, and building for the Mobile Web just a rehash of the same old Web accessibility problems?”