blog post for 5/18/2005

In the first article, it refers web accessibility to be “the design of a webpage that embraces the requirements of Universal Design in order to ensure that all users can access the information on the page (Waddell, C),” which directly relates to cyberspace as public space. In relation to web accessibility, the last portion of that quote, where it says that all users can access the information, to me sounds like what cyberspace as public space refers to. The article also dives into how web accessibility allows for a wide arrange and different types of users to be able to use the site. Websites should be user friendly enough to appeal to the widest array of people; otherwise, this is just another barricade in cyberspace, where if someone doesn’t know how to use it, it only allows for a smaller portion of the population access. Web accessibility has a lot of different meanings, but one group that slipped my mind as the article referred to, are people with disabilities. I think a lot of times these people are forgotten about, and web accessibility applies to them too. If it doesn’t appeal to as many people as possible, that means there are barriers to others. But I do come to ask, how can anything have full web and user accessibility? Everyone has different backgrounds and different levels which need to be addressed.