Maximum Accessibility(c) Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

ISBN: 0201774224
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2002
Pages: 128

Authors: John M. Slatin, Sharron Rush

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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
What Is a Table?
Accessibility Issues for Layout Tables
Accessibility Issues for Data Tables
Design Goals for Accessible Tables
Creating a More Accessible Bus Schedule
Looking Beyond HTML
Chapter 12. Toward More Accessible PDFs
PDF: So Near and Yet So Far
Providing an Accessible Plug-In
Creating Accessible PDF Documents
Experimenting with Tables in PDF
Burdens of the Past: Legacy PDFs and the Challenge of Accessibility
Chapter 13. Enhancing Accessibility through Multimedia
Put Multi- in Your Media
A Real-World Example: The ATSTAR Project
Multimedia Expands Accessibility Options
Accessible Video Content Requires Closed Captioning
Enhance User Experience with Audio Description
Using Transcripts as Equivalent Alternatives
Alternatives for Stand-Alone and Other Audio
Meeting the Accessibility Challenges of Animation
Go Forth and Multi
Chapter 14. Accessible Use of Scripts, Applets, and Plug-ins
Plug and Play? Not Yet
SCRIPTS
Applets
Plug-Ins
Media Players
Use the Right Tool for the Job
Chapter 15. Supporting Accessibility with Cascading Style Sheets
Stylin for Maximum Accessibility
Beneath the Visual Aspects of the Web
The Advantages of Using Style Sheets
A Different Approach to Design
Methods of Associating Style Sheets with Documents
Using Style Sheets to Enhance Accessibility for People with Low Vision or Cognitive Disabilities
Styling the Air Judging Form
CSS Positioning, Reading Order, and Navigation Links
Once More, with Feeling: Good Design Is Accessible Design
Appendix A. Resources and Tools for Accessible Design sup class
Information Resources
Validation and Repair Tools
Authoring Tools Reported to Provide Some Support for Creating Accessible Content
Tools for Captioning and Descriptive Video
Appendix B. Why Is Accessibility on the Internet Important?
Internet User Scenarios to Consider
Appendix C. Linearized Tables
Bibliography