Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Platforms and Audiences

Description

It's not a one-browser web anymore. You need to reach audiences that use cell phones, PDAs, game consoles, or other "alternative" browsers, as well as users with disabilities. Legal requirements for assistive technologies as well as a wide array of new browsing experiences means you need to concentrate on semantics, alternate access paths, and progressive enhancement.

 Give your audience the power to interact with your content on their own terms. It's the right thing to do, and with a $100 billion a year market for accessible content, new laws and new technologies, you can't afford to ignore accessibility.

 With this book, you'll learn basic principles and techniques for developing accessible HTML, audio, video, and multimedia content. In addition, you will understand how to apply the principles you learn in this book to new technologies when they emerge.

 You'll learn how to:

Use best practices of accessibility to develop accessible web content Build testing into projects to improve results and reduce costs Create high quality alternative representations for your audience Add accessibility features to external media like PDF and Flash Negotiate the terrain of accessibility standards Apply principles of accessiblity to new technologies as they emerge

CONTENTS:

Part I-Laying the Foundation

Introduction

Why Be Accessible?

A Brief Introduction to Disabilities

An Environment for Access

Testing for Accessibility

Part II-Building a Solid Structure

The Structured Life

Round Tables

The Accessible Interface

Part III-Getting the Perfect View

A Picture Is Worth

Video Killed the Something-Something

Part IV: Putting on Some Additions

Not All Documents Are Created Equal

Scripted Responses

Embedded Applications: Rinse and Repeat

Part V-Understanding the Building Codes

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

Section 508

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

Meanwhile, in the Rest of the World. . .

Final Thoughts

Bibliography

Index