From bd64a9619ae98bddcfb8337dd633d0a66af3d8d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "P.RR" Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:06:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add the text "countries with slow Internet" (#24443) --- guide/english/accessibility/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/guide/english/accessibility/index.md b/guide/english/accessibility/index.md index c7795a22c0..db78e83397 100644 --- a/guide/english/accessibility/index.md +++ b/guide/english/accessibility/index.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ disabilities affect Web use and includes scenarios of people with disabilities u Web accessibility also **benefits** people *without* disabilities. For example, a key principle of Web accessibility is designing Web sites and software that are flexible to meet different user needs, preferences, and situations. This **flexibility** also benefits people *without* disabilities in certain situations, such as people using a slow or data-limited Internet connection, people with older devices, people with "temporary disabilities" such as a broken arm, and people with changing abilities due to aging. The document [Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization](https://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/Overview) describes many different benefits of Web accessibility, including **benefits for organizations**. -Web accessibility should also include the people who don't have access to the internet or to computers. +Web accessibility should also include the people who don't have access to the internet or to computers and also the countries with slow Internet. A prominent guideline for web development was introduced by the [World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)](https://www.w3.org/), the [Web Accessibility Initiative](https://www.w3.org/WAI/) from which we get the [WAI-ARIA](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Accessibility/WAI-ARIA_basics), the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite. Where WAI tackles the semantics of html to more easily nagivate the DOM Tree, ARIA attempts to make web apps, especially those developed with javascript and AJAX, more accessible.