Poster

Why is Accessibility Metadata Proving Difficult?

Download PDF Read Online
Abstract

Accessibility metadata is simply metadata that describes the accessibility of resources and services, usually those on, or available through, the web. Awareness of widespread web content inaccessibility led to work being done to develop guidelines for authors and others to make sure that content would be more accessible to those with special access needs, especially those with disabilities who were being disenfranchised by their lack of access to the web. Currently, work is being done to find ways of signalling the degree of accessibility of resources, and ways of matching resources to searches and people. In addition, accessibility metadata could be used to repair some inaccessibility problems on the fly. This paper describes some of the work being done and the problems that have contributed to make the progress comparatively slow.

Author information

Liddy Nevile
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia,

Cite this article

Nevile, L. (2002). Why is Accessibility Metadata Proving Difficult? International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2002. https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.952107229

DOI : 10.23106/dcmi.952107229

CC-0 Logo Metadata and citations of this article is published under the Creative Commons Zero Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0), allowing unrestricted reuse. Anyone can freely use the metadata from DCPapers articles for any purpose without limitations.
CC-BY Logo This article full-text is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license allows use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source is cited.