Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success

© Martine Dowden and Michael Dowden 2019

Martine Dowden and Michael DowdenApproachable Accessibilityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4881-2_2

2. The Road to Accessibility

Martine Dowden¹  and Michael Dowden¹

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Brownsburg, IN, USA

 

This chapter builds upon what you have learned about web accessibility in Chapter 1, by discussing the people, organizations, and standards that are leading us to a universally accessible Web.

Accessibility Timeline

Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory. ¹

—Vannevar Bush, 1945

The concept of the Internet as we know it ...