Weblogs+and+Accessibility

Weblogs and Accessibility
Robin Lu

Web 2.0 was intended to be used in place of the World Wide Web. It aims to enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. It allows people to make personal comments, suggestions, feedback and input in what they are working on. People become engaged in ongoing conversations on issues and concerns. Weblogs are a blog that is associated with Web 2.0 and maintained by an individual to capture the readers comments, opinions and ideas on specific content. RSS is a feature in weblog that can be read by many different devices. Many individuals use YouTube for downloading videos to their blogs and flicker to download photos. There are four main principles to web accessibility. **Principle** means that all website content must be seen by all users despite their disabilities. All websites need to be **operable** by all users. The language of the website must be U**nderstandable** and useable to all parties and **Robust** is to make sure that all content functional across current and future technology. Most blogs are usually accessible but sometimes the administrator can inadvertently add content that is not accessible. Using closed cation is a big area that administrators tend to forget or doesn't match up with the content. Problems for people with accessibility happens when the administrator doesn't take care of the accessibility for all users. When creating a blog use the four main principles to make sure you are meeting everyone's needs; Principles, Operable, Understandable and Robust.

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