Relevance to Theme: Web accessibility will be one of the most important issue for the next two decades. As a matter of fact, many academics argues that "Population aging" will provoke a huge increasement of people with disabilities. Even though the Internet became one of the main sources of informations, web accessibility is still very limited, therefore a lot of people is kept away from the use of digital technologies. At different scales, standards have been taken to enhance web accessibility. For instance, the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" at the international level and the “Accessibility requirements suitable for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe” at the European level. Some academics consider that those standards are heavily focused on website’s basic functions instead of taking into account the user-experience.
Relevance to Internet Governance: Using the ICT, states are trying to improve, on one hand the administration efficiency and on the other hand, the participation of the citizens. According to many academics, civic technologies became one the main instruments to design public policies. In this context, the improvement of web accessibility is essential to guarantee an equal access to citizenship.