Computer Networks and ISDN Systems (1999)

What influences accessibility of web pages? Research was performed on how the code generated by an authoring tool and the HTML-tags and attributes present in a document influence accessibility. In addition, the impact of the capabilities of hard- and software deployed on the client side as well as the capabilities of the person who actually tries to use the information was analyzed. Based on the findings, a method was developed to measure accessibility of web pages and a list of recommendations was compiled to create documents that are accessible by virtually everyone. Keywords: Accessibility, Measurement, Guidelines, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) 5 2 Corresponding Authors. E-mail: weboffice@ethz.ch 3 http://www.weboffice.ethz.ch/ 4 http://www.ethz.ch/ 5 http://www.w3.org/WAI/ 6 http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ Introduction Tim Berners Lee - often referred to as the "father of the Web" - once said: "The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless o..