Accessibility
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[edit] Articles
- Creating accessible forms
- Better accessible forms
- Accessible data tables
- Standards compliant accessible tables Links to articles about tables
- Low vision design: CSS for screen readers. The article contains a nice checklist on what to do to make your alternative stylesheet work.
- Writing a good accessibility statement that's not too technical and addresses the needs of people visiting your website. A good example.
- Skip links hide or show?
- Eat cake Accessibility versus usability. You can have both. Use Javascript to only display certain items on a page. No javascript available, and you see all items on the page.
- Accessibility myths and misconceptions
- AJAX and screen readers, AJAX is not all that accessible
- Skip links
[edit] Tables
- Using tables the right way by Roger Johansson. Low level introduction.
- Very useful links for building tables (Webstandards)
- In depth discussion on tables and accessibility
[edit] Accesskeys
- Accesskeys - is it worth it?
- Reasons why John Foliot (WATS) doesn't use accesskeys
- Accesskeys and reserved key combinations
- Link relationships as an alternative to accesskeys
- The future of accesskeys
[edit] Forms
- Accessible forms, a tutorial, very useful with HTML/CSS examples and clear accessibility guidelines
[edit] Tools
[edit] Human Evaluation
- Evaluation accessibility part 1: Background and preparation (Roger Johansson), background and useful tools for accessibility evaluation
- Evaluating accessibility part 2: Basic Checkpoints (Roger Johansson), automatic tests and easy manual checks
- Evaluating accessibility part 3: Digging deeper (Roger Johansson), points that are difficult to test automatically.
- Inside the mind of a Grader, an explanation to a handy checklist of assessing a site's accessibility.
[edit] Automated Evaluation
- Colour contrast checker, tells you whether it passes the W3 guideline
- Truwex online looks pretty good
- WebXact lets you test for quality, accessibility and privacy
[edit] Books
- Building Accessible Websites a full online version of Joe Clark's book
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by W3C
- Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory compliance (Michael R. Burks, Patrick H. Lauke, Christian Heilmann, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Bruce Lawson, Shawn Lawton Henry, Bob Regan, Richard Rutter, Jim Thatcher, Mark Urban, Cynthia Waddell)
[edit] Accessibility court cases
- Accessibility white paper by conscious.co.uk (websites for lawyers)
- Sydney Olympics accessibility complaint
