ABSTRACT
The importance of universal accessibility to web resources is widely acknowledged (Witt & McDermott, 2002; Kelly et al., 2005a). The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) has developed guidelines that help to ensure web resources can be accessed by people with disabilities. With the Web providing the main delivery channel for e-learning resources, it would appear that adhering to the WAI guidelines should be a requirement for e-learning development. However, we put the case for a wider perspective that recognises the limitations of implementing the WAI guidelines.
