The Trend in Web Accessibility and Electronic Government---International Effort and Examples of Establishment in Asia-Pacific Region

Accession number;04A0123015
Title;The Trend in Web Accessibility and Electronic Government---International Effort and Examples of Establishment in Asia-Pacific Region
Author; TANAKA EMA (Res. Inst. Telecommunications and Economics, Japan, JPN)
Journal Title;ITU Janaru
Journal Code:L0766A
ISSN:0916-7544
VOL.34;NO.2;PAGE.36-40(2004)
Figure&Table&Reference;TBL.1, REF.6
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;Web accessibility is a concept meaning easiness for all the people including those of advanced years and those handicapped to access to information on Internet. Recently, discussions on accessibility to ICT (information and communication technologies) are becoming active, and by international organizations, discussions have been made focused on accessibility to website of electronic government. Lately, WCAG1.0 completed by WAI, a WWW consortium, is often used as a standard for checking accessibility. This article overviews the present condition of preparation of the guideline about web accessibility and efforts at international organizations, and moreover, examples of establishment about the web accessibility in Asia-Pacific Region are mentioned.