Accessibility
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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
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
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
Forms
- Accessible forms, a tutorial, very useful with HTML/CSS examples and clear accessibility guidelines
Tools
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.
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
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)
Accessibility court cases
- Accessibility white paper by conscious.co.uk (websites for lawyers)
- Sydney Olympics accessibility complaint
