The focus of this paper is Web accessibility for disabled people. Much of the Web remains inaccessible or difficult to access by people across a spectrum of disabilities and this may have serious implications for the potential use of the Web for increasing social inclusion. The topic of disabled Web access is introduced through a consideration of four discourses: digital divide, social construc...

There is still a large percentage of web resources that are inaccessible to many individuals. The authors previously developed a meta-method for evaluating the accessibility of existing web resources and now feel there is a need to provide advice on designing for accessibility during the development lifecycle. Despite the large quantity of resources on accessible design now available, there is ...

Recall tasks render 2 distinct sources of information available: the recalled content and the experienced ease or difficulty with which it can be brought to mind. Because retrieving many pieces of information is more difficult than retrieving only a few, reliance on accessible content and subjective accessibility experiences leads to opposite judgmental outcomes. People are likely to base judgm...

It is a legal requirement in many countries to ensure accessibility for Web applications. Although there are numerous regulations and standards regarding accessibility in the development of user interfaces, accessibility is nevertheless quite difficult to achieve, let alone tomaintain at a high level of quality throughout the development process. This difficulty is due to diverse factors includ...

In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), it is difficult for nodes to reliably access data on other nodes due to the mobility of vehicles. To improve the accessibility by certain vehicles to data generated at other vehicles, it is effective to distribute replicas of such data. However, if the density of vehicles is low, it is difficult to distribute an adequate number of replicas. In this paper, ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the accessibility of primary health care for black families from a poor neighbourhood. METHODS Ethnographic study with an interpretative anthropological approach, carried out with 18 families selected from a poor neighbourhood of Salvador, Northeastern Brazil, over a period of two years. Criteria for inclusion included being resident in the neighbourhood and classifying t...

An opportunistic network (OPPNET) consists of diverse mobile nodes with various mobility patterns. Numerous mobility patterns and the resource constraints of mobile nodes lead to network partitioning that result in system performance degradation including low data accessibility. In a traditional mobile ad hoc network (MANET) which is similar to an OPPNET, replica allocation schemes have been pr...

An accessible web page needs to follow the rules marked by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). The problem of the rules AA of web accessibility is that they are centered on the programming requisites more than the user needs for graphic design, functionalities or content. An important factor to take in account in accessibility standards is th...

The use of web applications has extremely increased in the last few years. However, some groups of users may experience difficulties when accessing them. Many different sets of accessibility guidelines have been developed in order to improve the quality of web interfaces. Some of them are of general purpose whereas others are specific for user, application or access device characteristics. The ...

Maxillofacial fractures present unique airway problem to the anesthesiologist. Patients with LeFort III fractures are at great risk of requiring emergent airway control due to midface instability and oropharyngeal airway obstruction. We present a case where difficult intubation was managed with close cooperation between the anesthesiologist and the surgeon.