Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone - page 1
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- Main Page
- Main Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Accessibility Guidelines and Standards, by Chapter
- Acknowledgments
- A Word about Screen Readers
- Part I: Accessibility and Why It Matters
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- What Is Web Accessibility?
- The Scale of the Problem
- Accessibility From the Developer s Point of View: You Can Make a Difference
- Overview of Maximum Accessibility
- Chapter 2. User Experience: Born to Shop
- Adventures in E-Commerce
- User Experience Narrative: Listening to Amazon.com
- Chapter 3. Accessibility in Law and Policy
- Accessibility: It s the Law
- The Disability Rights Movement in the United States
- The Rehabilitation Act
- Educational Mandates
- The Evolution of Law in Changing Society
- The Americans with Disabilities Act
- The Telecommunications Act
- Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
- The U.S. Access Board
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Accessibility Is a Global Concern
- Is the Internet Public Space?
- Remedies Outside of the Courts
- Now Things Get Really Interesting
- Chapter 4. Grassroots Efforts Support Maximum Accessibility
- Building Community Through Technology
- Roots Rock The Power of Grassroots Efforts
- Government Services Online
- Addressing Access Barriers in Community Technology Centers
- Where Do We Go From Here? Building National Consensus
- Chapter 5. User Experience: On the Bus
- Getting There Is Half The Fun
- Getting Information About Getting Around Town
- The Trouble with Tables
- User Experience Narrative: Austin s Capital Metro
- Other Examples
- Problem Solving: Designing a New Bus Schedule
- Chapter 6. The Business Case for Accessibility
- Improve Access and Improve Return on Investment
- Accessibility Is Good Business
- Selling Accessibility
- Delivering Accessibility
- Sustaining Accessibility
- Time Well Spent
- Chapter 7. User Experience: Museums on the Web
- Accessing Culture and History
- Museums in the United States
- A Whirlwind Tour of Museum Web Sites
- User Experience Narrative: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Text Equivalents Can Open the Doors of Perception
- Chapter 8. User Experience: Text-Only Alternatives
- Text-Only: Just Say
- Isn t Text-Only a Common Practice?
- User Experience Narrative 1: The National Public Radio Site
- User Experience Narrative 2: A Return to Amazon.com
- Finding Solutions: Toward Maximum Accessibility
- Part II: Strategies and Techniques for Maximum Accessibility
- Chapter 9. Equivalent Alternatives
- The Prime Directive: Equivalent Alternatives for Maximum Accessibility
- An Alternative to Images: ALT Text
- When ALT Text Isn t Enough: Extended Descriptions
- Text Description as a Design Element
- Sight and Sound: Equivalent Alternatives for Auditory Elements
- Turning the Telescope Around: Equivalent Alternatives for Text
- Chapter 10. Forms of Participation: Designing HTML Forms for Maximum Accessibility
- Interactivity and the Use of Forms
- Accessibility Problems and HTML Forms
- Working Through an Example: The Air Judging Form
- Looking Ahead
- Chapter 11. Creating Accessible Tables
- The Trouble with Tables
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