Accessibility tagger for non-accessibility enabled webpages

1. A method for improving content accessibility, comprising:

retrieving an accessibility tag for a piece of content;

modifying the piece of content with the accessibility tag to enable one or more accessibility features for the piece of content that remove barriers for the access of information technology by groups of users; and

rendering the piece of content with the accessibility features in a manner that is accessible to the groups of users.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein modifying the piece of content comprises modifying a document object model (DOM) of the content in accordance with the accessibility tag.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the piece of content has no initial accessibility tags.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the piece of content has incorrect initial accessibility tags.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the accessibility tag is retrieved from a remote tagging repository.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein retrieving the accessibility tag comprises requesting an accessibility tag from the tagging repository in accordance with an identifier for the piece of content.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising modifying the piece of content to introduce one or more new accessibility tags other than the retrieved accessibility tag.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising saving the one or more new accessibility tags to a remote tagging repository.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a computer readable program for improving content accessibility, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform the steps of claim 1 .

10. A method for improving content accessibility, comprising:

retrieving an accessibility tag for a piece of content from a remote tagging repository in accordance with an identifier for the piece of content;

modifying the piece of content by editing a document object model (DOM) of the piece of content in accordance with the accessibility tag to enable one or more accessibility features for the piece of content that remove barriers for the access of information technology by groups of users; and

rendering the piece of content with the accessibility features in a manner that is accessible to the groups of users.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the piece of content has no initial accessibility tags.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the piece of content has incorrect initial accessibility tags.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising modifying the piece of content to introduce one or more new accessibility tags other than the retrieved accessibility tag.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising saving the one or more new accessibility tags to a remote tagging repository.

15. A system for improving content accessibility, comprising:

a network interface configured to retrieve an accessibility tag for a piece of content; and

a content rendering module configured to modify the piece of content with the accessibility tag to enable one or more accessibility features for the piece of content that remove barriers for the access of information technology by groups of users and to render the piece of content with the accessibility features in a manner that is accessible to the groups of users.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the content rendering module is further configured to modify a document object model (DOM) of the content in accordance with the accessibility tag.

17. The system of claim 15 , wherein the piece of content has no initial accessibility tags.

18. The system of claim 15 , wherein the piece of content has incorrect initial accessibility tags.

19. The system of claim 15 , wherein the accessibility tag is retrieved from a remote tagging repository.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the network interface is further configured to request an accessibility tag from the tagging repository in accordance with an identifier for the piece of content.