The group's goal is to write guidelines for Web page authors who want to make their pages accessible for all disabled users. But for businesses and government agencies, making sites accessible may not be voluntary, he said. In a policy ruling in September 1996, the Department of Justice said the Americans With Disabilities Act did cover access to Web pages. But blind users often have to let individual Web page authors know that they can't understand their pages. Sometimes people instantly go and fix it, and sometimes people don't care.
Blind users say they want basic instruction on how to navigate the Web and get what they want.
They do not need long descriptions that are intended to help them see pictures or other graphics. You can't do that, but you can tell me how to get the picture and print it out for my daughter.