During the past five years, many dramatic changes have occurred on the web. New services have been announced, new interfaces have been developed and the web is approaching to be the new platform for many applications. Wikis, RSS feeds, blogs to name just a few, are dubs of new web applications (also know as web 2.0) that sighted people are experimenting and enjoying nowadays. However, the question we want to address is : How these new applications and changes are going to affect on how visually impaired people access them? This paper aims to provide information about the tools, services, projects, and research that are taking place nowadays on the web and the semantic web to make the web more accessible for visually impaired people. Also, the authors will present a pilot experiment to check the accessibility of some web 2.0 services.