Accessibility for the Web

Thursday, February 25, 2010

NOTICE: This is an old class. For current classes go to the Advanced Web Course or for more old classes, visit the archives page.

Class Outline

This week we will focus on the important topic of web standards and accessibility as well as practice a tricks that the experts use to make their site more accessible.

Homework For the Week

Read the article, What Is Web Accessibility? by Trenton Moss on ALA, then add an image replacement technique of your choice to your personal site.

Use the following url path: /hw/05/index.html

Resources

Download the presentation for this week

• W3C Accessibility Check List
• Dive Into Accessibility - Online book about accessibility by Mark Pilgrim
• 465 Berea Street - Home of the accessibility guru, Roger Johansson
• Web Standards Project Accessibility Task Force
• The Cynthia Says Accesibility Validator
• WebAIM Accessibility Validator
• What Is Web Accessibility? by Trenton Moss on ALA
• A List Apart Articles Tagged with Category of Accessibility
• 101 Image Replacement Techniques with CSS from David Shea at mezzoblue
• Accessibility with Embedded Video and Flash
• Fangs: Firefox Accessibility Plugin

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