Best Practices for Web Development
The man who created the World Wide Web in 1993 is Tim Berners-Lee. His creation altered the course of history.
Lee and others from around the globe created the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to oversee the future of the Web. Its purpose is to lead the Web to its full potential by creating standards that will ensure its long-term growth and its availability to every single person in the world.
The W3C monitors and makes recommendations about the technical underpinnings of the Web. One of its most pressing issues is that of making Web content accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities such as blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning difficulties, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, photosensitivity and combinations of these.
In other words, the World Wide Web should be technically constructed in a way that everyone can access its content.
The Office of Web Services follows W3C guidelines as well as guidelines of the Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA) to create a UIS Web Site that adheres to standards and is accessible to all users.
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