Semantic Web and Web Accessibility
by Marja-Riitta Koivunen

Table of contents

• Introduction: visual user view
• Introduction: nonvisual user view
• Why important?
• Introduction: nonvisual user view with alt text
• Introduction: machine view with or without alt text
• Why important?
• Introduction: machine view with metadata
• Contents
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• WCAG theme 1: Graceful transformation
• WCAG Guidelines 1-11
• WCAG theme 2: Understandable and navigable content
• WCAG Guidelines 12-14
• Homework 1: Validate content
• Homework 2: Check accessibility
• Semantic Web (SW) Activity
• Semantic Web - Layers
• Main SW principles
• SWELL example: Chain of trust
• Zakim: meeting bot
• Annotea: shared annotations
• Annotea: sample UI
• Homework 3: Use metadata
• The END