Europe aspires to expand Internet availability, accessibility
Ars Technica - The W3C's web accessibility guidelines primarily address the needs of disabled individuals, like blind users that require screen reader technologies, or users with cognitive impairments that can't process visual media fast enough to interact with

Web accessibility soon mandatory in Europe?
ZDNet - According to recent research, 81 percent of Web sites in the United Kingdom are inaccessible to disabled people, while a separate report found that only 3 percent of European public-sector Web sites met W3C accessibility guidelines. A representative