Web Accessibility

My initial thought about the Web was “wonderful, now everybody can access digital information and use the Web to it’s full potential, no matter where in the world they are.” Only later I learned that there are often technical or political restrictions, and badly designed or programmed websites exclude people, often unintentionally. People don’t want to discriminate other people, they just don’t know any better and make mistakes or misjudgments. So when the WCAG 1.0 were published in 1999 this was a revelation, and it became one of the standard tools in my professional toolbox. Ten years later I joined the W3C HTML Accessibility Task Force to help enhancing the accessibility of HTML5.