Issues -                  

Objective

• Accessibility for handicapped

  • Focuses on supporting accessibility and assistive technologies
  • Conform with current technical standards (Section 508, WAI-WCAG)
  • Utilize accessibility checker tools such as LIFT and Bobby
  • Short-term time perspective
  • Approach may be mandated by law
  
  

• Universal design

  • Emphasizes approaches that will support a wide range of clients (graphical browsers, voice browsers, PDAs, cell phones), of which accessibility software is one special case
  • Builds on increasing underlying uniformity in information technologies, particularly XML
  • Utilizes separation of content from presentation