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Solutions de rechange aux tests de Turing sur le Web Note de groupe de travail du W3C du 23 novembre 2005

A common method of limiting access to services made available over the Web is visual verification of a bitmapped image. This presents a major problem to users who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability such as dyslexia.

Accessibility Study of Museum Websites in Italy and in Switzerland Wide analytical survey on a significant numbeer of museum websites in Italy and in Switzerland to verify their current level of accessibility (especially for visually-impaired users). The accessibility validation will be based on the W3C international standards of accessibility and on other advanced guidelines.

Some people see the legal obligation to follow Web content accessibility guidelines - whether of the W3C or, in the US, of section 508 - as leading to boring text-only pages. Actually, these guidelines do not exclude the use of multimedia on the web. They say that multimedia should be made accessible by "Providing equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content" and in particular: "For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation."[1]

The guidelines overview pages listed below introduce WAI accessibility guidelines and their related documents, such as: * techniques to help implement the guidelines * translations of the documents into different languages * checklists