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Accessibility
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- → Accessible online video for keyboard-only users
- Sorted out transcripts and subtitles to make your online videos accessible? This is important, but there are other accessibility considerations which are often overlooked. Here are some other things you must consider.
- → Understanding Web Safe Colors
- The web-safe colors were chosen mathematically, not because they are necessarily the colors you would elect to use most often.
- → Web Axe - practical web accessibility tips
- A popular podcast and blog on web accessibility. News, techniques, interviews, events, etc.
- → Accessibility Heuristics
- The Evolving Web - A Pace Layering view of the development of the Web and the W3C
- 30-Mar-08 by Roger Hudson
- The Web today is very different to what it was in 1994, when the World Wide Web Consortium was established. Roger Hudson's article - The Evolving Web - looks back at the early history of the Web and uses Pace Layering theory to consider some recent developments and the role of the W3C in the process of change.
- → 10 common errors when implementing accessibility
- Web developers often make the same errors as each other when implementing accessibility - find out what these are and how to avoid making these mistakes.
- → AJAX accessibility for websites
- Discover the accessibility problems caused by AJAX and how it can be used to enhance web accessibility.
- → Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
- (Not yet stable) Version 2 of the guidelines, explaining how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities ...
- → Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
- Version 1 of the guidelines, explaining how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities ...
- → Google Ads on Mobile Phones: Accessibility, Standards and Implementation
- Google AdWords/AdSense web advertising has been expanded to provide ads on mobile phones. These are notes for a talk by Tom Worthington in Canberra, 15 October 2007.
- → Improving accessibility for motor impaired users
- The unique requirements for motor impaired web users can often be overlooked - find out what you need to do for your website.
- → Validity and accessibility tests of Australian Universities (Questionable link)
- 32% of Australian Universities sites validated.
64% of Australian Universities passed Priority One accessibility Checklist testing.
- → Philippine Web Accessibility Group
- Official Website of the Philippine Web Accessibility Group
- → Accessibility audit vs. accessibility testing
- Article outlining the difference between the two accessibility evaluation methods: The accessibility audit and accessibility testing.
- → The future of web accessibility
- Accessibility is currently in a great state of change - find out what the future hold for web accessibility and how this may affect your website.
- → WCAG 2.0: The new W3C accessibility guidelines evaluated
- WCAG 2.0, the second version of the W3C's accessibility guidelines are soon to be released - find out what accessibility experts Webcredible think of these new guidelines.
- → Creating Accessible Tabular Data Tables
- This Fast Track tutorial strives to introduce compliant web standards and accessible markup utilized in creating tabular data tables to those new to accessibility and/or using WYSIWYG web authoring tools.
- → Web Accessibility Techniques
- Check out these web accessibility techniques.
- → Web Accessibility Benefits Everyone
- Check out the many benefits of web accessibility. A website optimised for accessibility will not only benefit your organisation, it will benefit everyone.
- How to Write a Good ALT Text
- 03-Oct-06 by Jojo Esposa
- After reading a few articles about web accessibility and from my own personal experience, I have compiled a list of ways in which we can write a good ALT text.
- → Why Web Accessibility is Important
- Excerpt from a lecture done by Mr. Jojo I. Esposa Jr. during the Webmasters' Interface in ICT for Persons With Disabilities in Cebu City, Philippines
- → Heretic Press Australian government website tests (Questionable link)
- A review of .gov.au sites for validity and accessibility
- → Accessibility101
- Accessible Website Design Tips and Tools.
- → Avoid forcing links to open in a new window
- Actually you should avoid forcing links to open in a new window or pop ups (such as with the "target" attribute or with Java Script).
- → Skip to Main Content Links are Important
- Providing links that allow the user to skip directly to the main content, bypassing the navigation, enhances the accessibility of your web site.
- → Accessibility Testing
- Accessibility testing for web sites is a service that can provide much more than the standard point-by-point testing techniques of most automated services.
- → The need for accessibility
- Being in a wheelchair is not in itself a barrier to using a web site. So, what does accessibility mean in this case?
- → GrayBit
- GrayBit is an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page's perceived contrast.
- → Beyond guidelines: Advanced accessibility techniques
- Find out how to go beyond the W3C accessibility guidelines and offer a truly accessible web experience.
- → openweb, internet accessibile - indice delle news (Questionable link)
- News regarding web accessibility and usability in italian.
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