How Java HTML Text Editors Impact Web Accessibility

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How Java HTML Text Editors Impact Web
Accessibility
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How Java HTML Text Editors Impact Web
Accessibility

• Helps authors create compelling web content and
  streamline editing process
• Creates websites accessible to people with
  disabilities
• Expands online audience substantially, improve
  audience branding and providing protection
  against legal action
• Although creating accessible websites seems like
  every company would do, accomplishments in US and
  globally have been less than impressive
• The process remains difficult, even with advanced
  JAVA HTML text editor technologies

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How Java HTML Text Editors Impact Web
Accessibility

• The Growing Need for Web Accessibility
• Numbers indicate an urgent need for web
  accessibility to become much more prolific
• In US, 20 of the population requires assistive
  technologies to access web pages
• In addition World Health Organization estimates
  15 of people around the world live with
  disability
• Numbers will only get bigger according to US
  Department of Labor

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How Java HTML Text Editors Impact Web
Accessibility

• How is Web Accessibility Being Addressed
  Globally?
• Advocacy groups for people with disabilities have
  pushed for global legislation
• In 2006 General Assembly of the United Nations
  adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons
  with Disabilities (CRPD). CRPD was signed by more
  than 153 countries and became an international
  law
• CRPD covers a broad scope by recognizing the
  importance of accessibility for disabled persons
  to the physical, social, economic and cultural
  environment

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How Java HTML Text Editors Impact Web
Accessibility

• How Java HTML Text Editors Help
• Using HTML text editor with advanced
  accessibility capabilities can extend a business
  audience. Tools can help company comply with
  regulations
• Advanced Java HTML text editors
• Offer built in accessibility tools
• Can easily locate and correct compliance issues
  before content goes live
• Address accessibility compliance issues right as
  authors type and before they publish content
• Java HTML text editors interface must be
  compatible with assistive technologies, such as
  screen readers

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How Java HTML Text Editors Impact Web
Accessibility

• Developing Future Guidelines for Web
  Accessibility
• Legislation been put into place in many developed
  countries over several decades to prevent
  discrimination against disabled people
• A global trend exists for countries to adopt the
  World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Web Content
  Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• In 2008 the guidelines include accessibility for
  disabled people, guidelines have the added
  benefit of creating interoperability among mobile
  devices and smart phones

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How Java HTML Text Editors Impact Web
Accessibility

• Developing Future Guidelines for Web
  Accessibility
• Websites are being accessed on mobile phones and
  are used exclusively in emerging countries where
  no fixed communications infrastructure exists
• Accessibility for everyone is imperative
• Developers and web authors need to understand how
  to expand their audience and allow all people
  including disabled, the opportunity to access a
  website
• Java HTML text editors will continue to evolve as
  valuable tools in the content creation process

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About the Author

• Tom Smith is VP Worldwide Sales and Marketing for
  Ephox Corporation, a fast-growing software
  company focused on delivering content performance
  solutions for developers, marketers, authors and
  web production teams. Learn more about our Java
  HTML Text Editor by visiting http//ephox.com/.