Digital Inclusion Challenge for People with Disabilities: analyzing Accessibility in Blogs Bez, Maria Rosangela 1 , Montardo, Sandra Portella 2 , Passerino, Liliana Maria 3 1 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Brazil, rosangelabez@sinos.net 2 Centro Universitário Feevale, Brazil, sandramontardo@feevale.br 3 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Brazil, liliana@cinted.ufrgs.br Abstract: This article is based on the assumption that on-line socialization favors autonomy of People with Disabilities (PD) while stimulating their social-cognitive development. Taking into account the growing popularization of Web 2.0 tools, which favor the on-line socialization, this work aims at verifying the digital accessibility on blogs. As an analysis criterion, we used the digital accessibility principles established by the programs daSilva, Hera and Examinator on web portals and sites which display blogs and also on the blogs generated by these web sites. We believe that the diagnosis of digital accessibility on blogs is a first step to identify socialization patterns on them, the object of our research, and thus, propose measures to revert this scenario. Keywords: Digital Accessibility; Blogs; People with Disabilities; On-line socialization. 1. Introduction We believe there is socialization potential in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the enhancement of social-cognitive development of PD, and these tools can be adopted as digital inclusion practice. If the use of computers in education is capable of favoring this process, in the case of a PD this is a resource which favors life, according to Schlünzen (2005), since it is a communication, production, construction and diagnosis means, among others. In a previous article (Montardo; Passerino, 2007), when trying to establish a relation between the concepts of social and digital inclusion, we criticized official Brazilian documents which deal with inclusion as a form of invitation and we also criticized authors who understand inclusion as merely overcoming exclusion (understood as the lack of material resources) from a dual point of view (inclusion as the opposite of exclusion).