The Accessibility of front page of the Egyptian official newspaper websites for Visually Impaired and Blind Persons

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Assistant Professor, Department of Graphics and Multimedia (previously), College of Information and Communication, Imam Muhammad bin Saud University Islamic Riyadh

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The advances in technology creates many challenges for persons with visual handicaps. The design or format of a web page, may determine whether this resource can be conveniently accessed by a blind person or be an exercise in frustration.
Visually impaired and blind persons may encounter such problems as difficulty in navigating sites that are poorly organized with unclear directions or difficulty in the use or availability of adaptive technology with a computer to access the Web.
This study aims to achieve the Accessibility of the front page of the Egyptian official newspaper websites for Visually Impaired and Blind Persons.
We concluded that the web designer must adhere to WCAG priority 1.0 guidelines and fix the errors that appear when analyzing the site with the Wave tool to make the website accessible to the blind and visually impaired persons.

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