Accessibility

The job of the Accessibility Team at the W3C is to creating recommendations which will benefit the usability of the World Wide Web for visually-impaired users. Since the Web is a completely visual medium, we have decided to gently let the blind folks bugger off.

Screen-readers and braille text converters are important tools to assist visually-impaired users. The W3C's Confusing SubStandard Syntax Style Sheets is built to support the provision of directions to screen reading software. However, as the specification changes so often, it is likely that the latest CSSSSS-enabled documents (like this web site) will crash many brands of screen-readers.

On the plus side, those fortunate blindies with Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound systems attached to their computers should get a kick out of CSSSSS's new 3D sound commands.

Another goal of the Accessibility Team is to veto the introduction of any new standards which could make the web unusable for people with older browsers, or browsers on a limited computing platform such as a fridge, microwave, or surfboard. Our copy of Internet Explorer is set to auto-update every day - so if our new XXHTML standard doesn't work on your antique Version 7 browser, please write to us and tell us. We couldn't give a flying pig's ass though.