Internet accessibility for older users has become an important issue to promote inclusion and participation in the Information Society. This paper proposes an investigation into the technology accessibility problems faced by older users in China. The research reported here was conducted by means of an exploratory survey with a Web-based questionnaire and discussions with older users at meetings. The study had 180 valid answers and involved representatives from each of the 25 provinces of China. The results show that 39% of the participants cannot or can only partially access information, because of various kinds of accessibility problems. Many participants indicated that the main problems in accessing the Internet were health barriers, circumstances barriers, and Internet design barrier. The possible reason for these difficulties could be that the government doesn't foster a social environment conducive to helping the elderly to get online and that it does not provide services for the elderly designed to help them access information electronically. The poor rate of accessibility industry for the elderly, as well as the lack of Chinese accessibility laws, is an important issue that must be dealt with to promote greater Internet accessibility for the elderly.
We have analyzed the requirement of the deaf who were aware of the necessity of using sign language animation to broadcast the text on the web pages. So we have designed the architecture and implemented the web-based Chinese Sign Language Broadcasting System.Some deaf participants were asked to test this system through viewing the news. They think that the system can express the meanings of text via true and accurate sign lan-guage successfully and naturally, which can be made into the plug-ins of the browser, so we hold the idea that the client can use browser to download and install the plug-ins, and browse the web effectively and independently. The evalua-tion of these participants shows that this system meets the initial goal of ours.
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