#accessibility (539 links)
- Web Standards Awards webstandardsawards.com
- v0.9.3 Web Developer Extension on chrispederick.com chrispederick.com
Newer version than on Moz Update
Even if it looks great at a glance, the color scheme doesn't work if many visitors can't easily find crucial information, use whatever services are offered, and effectively navigate the site.
"Only by following [W3C]guidelines can Web developers ensure the maximum return on investment for Web site development. " Reasonable overview, but not entirely happy with some points
(as far as I can tell) modern-day browsers just don’t have any way to extract that [semantic] information and display it to the user.
- W3C Semantic data extractor w3.org
This tool, geared by an XSLT stylesheet, tries to extract some information from a HTML semantic rich document.
Why image based charts are bad and what you can do about it.
- Gov.uk web sites get thumbs up for usability | The Register theregister.co.uk
Refers to new report (tagged "precedent")
- alt tags ‽ The Accessibility Challenge: Accessibility, Usability and Web Standards alttags.org · Archived on
The goal of accessibility faced multiple challenges, all which are part of a bigger challenge
- Precedent | report details precedent.co.uk
Third Annual Report into Key Government Web sites
- LukeW: Web Application Form Design lukew.com
Very, very useful. "Not all Web applications use forms consistently. Variations in the alignment of input fields, their respective labels, calls to action, and their surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior."
- User Styles: example rules for user style sheets squarefree.com
Betsie-alike user stylesheet: http://www.message.uk.com/css/betsie_v02.css
- Juicy Studio: ECMAScript Menu System juicystudio.com
To illustrate using a completely separate behavioural layer, I'll demonstrate a collapsible menu system. All of the examples are HTML, but work equally well as XHTML.
- Digital Web Magazine - Accessibility From The Ground Up digital-web.com
Next year, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will release Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
- Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers redish.net · Archived on
Conducting usability testing with people with disabilities, specifically blind and lowvision users
- Accessible Javascript Event Handling :: Tom Wright severnsolutions.co.uk
Applying closures to event handling methods.
Discuss and see how we can use Javascript, but still maintain accessibility.
The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been developed to aid manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects of accessibility.
Cabinet Office web guidelines
- PLCs hit back at complaints on web accessibility | The Register theregister.co.uk
Some FTSE 100 companies receive three or four complaints every week saying that their web sites are not accessible
- Javascript - Usable forms quirksmode.org