There are over half a billion people in the world who are disabled, and although there are many commendable efforts on the Internet to support the cause of improving website accessibility for these people, the vast majority of websites do not follow the recommended guidelines to provide user friendly pages for the disabled (Information society, author unknown, 1998). As technology and electronic interactive services become a larger part of our everyday living, these groups risk severe social exclusion as a consequence of the myriad of technical barriers they face when using the Internet (Valdes, L, 2003). Nowadays, nearly all errands, such as banking, shopping, learning, and government services can be handled through the use of the Internet. Most of these...