Design Accessible Web Sites: Thirty-Six Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms

Jeremy Sydik9781934356029, 1934356026

«Accessibility» has a reputation of being dull, dry, and unfriendly toward graphic design.
But there is a better way: well-styled semantic markup that lets you provide the best possible results for all of your users.
This book will help you provide images, video, Flash and PDF in an accessible way that looks great to your sighted users, but is still accessible to all users.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
Acknowledgments……Page 10
Preface……Page 12
Getting to Know Each Other……Page 13
Finding Your Way Through This Book……Page 14
Principles Before Guidelines……Page 15
Laying the Foundation……Page 18
It’s the Right Thing to Do……Page 19
Accessibility is Good Business……Page 20
It’s the Law……Page 21
Building with Accessibility Can Make You More Capable……Page 24
Visual Impairments……Page 26
Auditory Impairments……Page 29
Mobility Impairments……Page 31
Cognitive Impairments……Page 32
Multiple Disabilities……Page 33
An Environment for Access……Page 35
Making a Team Effort……Page 37
Plan for Access……Page 46
Multiple Access Paths……Page 53
Don’t Get WET!……Page 57
Guidelines for Accessibility……Page 61
Testing for Accessibility……Page 64
Testing as a Design Decision……Page 65
Building a Testing Toolbox……Page 69
Getting Your Hands Dirty……Page 76
Building a Solid Structure……Page 81
The Structured Life……Page 82
Say It With Meaning……Page 83
Keeping It Simple is Smart……Page 89
Minding Your
‘s and ‘s……Page 94
Linking It All Together……Page 98
Styled To The Nines……Page 101
Welcome To The Future……Page 105
Round Tables……Page 110
Setting The Table……Page 111
Ah, , I Hardly Knew Ye!……Page 115
Layout And Other Bad Table Manners……Page 122
The Accessible Interface……Page 130
It’s Their Web—We’re Just Building In It……Page 131
Getting al……Page 135
Tickling The Keys……Page 142
Your Interface Has Some Explaining To Do……Page 145
Getting the Perfect View……Page 149
A Picture is Worth………Page 150
Stoplights and Poison Apples……Page 151
Thinking in Terms of Black and White……Page 157
To Put it Another Way……Page 162
More Than alt= Can Say……Page 167
alt.text.odds-and-ends……Page 174
Video Killed the Something-Something……Page 179
It’s Not Polite to Flash the Audience……Page 181
Words That Go [Creak] in the Night……Page 185
Describe it to Me……Page 190
On the Cutting Room Floor……Page 194
Putting on Some Additions……Page 206
Not All Documents Are Created Equal……Page 207
Back at the Office……Page 209
PDF: Trying to Make Portable Accessible……Page 213
Scripted Responses……Page 221
Unassuming Scripts……Page 222
Higher Order Scripts……Page 226
Embedded Applications: Rinse and Repeat……Page 232
The Many Faces of Flash……Page 233
Java: Is Your Brew Fair-Trade?……Page 239
Building Codes……Page 243
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0……Page 244
Checkpoint Priorities……Page 245
Conformance……Page 246
The 14 Guidelines of WCAG 1.0……Page 247
Section 508……Page 261
Software Applications and Operating Systems (§1194.21)……Page 262
Web-Based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (§1194.22)……Page 264
Video and Multimedia Products (§1194.24)……Page 267
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0……Page 270
The Basics of WCAG 2.0……Page 271
Concerns About WCAG 2.0……Page 272
The WCAG 2.0 Guidelines……Page 273
Meanwhile, In the Rest of the World………Page 288
Canada……Page 289
The European Union……Page 290
Japan……Page 291
United Nations……Page 292
More Information……Page 294
Stay Informed……Page 295
Have Fun……Page 296
Bibliography……Page 298
C……Page 299
L……Page 300
T……Page 301
W……Page 302
Z……Page 303