Here’s your astonishingly superspecial chance to tour the book Building Accessible Websites one chapter at a time. Follow each chapter to find links to versions you can read online, or, if that’s all you’re interested in, look at the Serialization page.
Two of the most useful sections
How to write alternate texts for images
The Brewer palette: Colour combinations for colourblind people
Table of contents
- 00. The access manifesto
- A declaration of what accessibility is and should be: “The true reason to design for accessibility is greed. Quite simply, I want it all, and so should you. Give us everything you’ve got. Give us everything there is to give”
- 01. How to read this book
- Facts about the approach, limitations, and typography of the book
- 02. Why bother?
- Why make Websites accessible? Well, why not? Common myths exploded, and active reasons to engage in Web accessibility provided
- 03. How do disabled people use computers?
- The right (as opposed to “correct”) terms to use in discussing disabled people. Screen readers and other adaptive technology
- 04. What is media access?
- Web accessibility is merely the latest form of media access to come down the pike. Learn your history
- 05. The structure of accessible pages
- Web accessibility relies on standards. Learn the importance of valid structured HTML
- 06. The image problem
- Reason in itself to buy this book: The fullest explanation of how to make online images accessible yet written, with dozens of special cases explained
- 07. Text and links
- Text is the most accessible format there is, but some reasonable care must nonetheless be taken
- 08. Navigation
- For a mobility-impaired person (and, to a lesser extent, for a blind person), moving around within Websites is tedious. Learn how to ease the tedium
- 09. Type and colour
- Colourblindness explicated. In this chapter, what little you need to do to ensure readable onscreen type is laid out in black and white, as it were
- 10. Tables and frames
- Tables prompt eye-gouging hissyfits among accessibility advocates and Web designers of all stripes, whether oldschool or avant-garde. Both sides are saddled with myths and both argue in large part from ideology. Let’s do a reality check, shall we?
- 11. Stylesheets
- We are told that stylesheets hold tremendous untapped power in accessible Web design. Could it be almost completely untrue?
- 12. Forms and interaction
- Getting around inside Web forms
- 13. Multimedia
- Near and dear to my heart, a full discussion of captioning and audio description of multimedia
- 14. Certification and testing
- You may be required to assert that your Website is accessible – and prove it. Here’s how
- 15. Future dreams
- The current state of the art barely qualifies as an “art.” What do we need for Websites to be truly and elegantly accessible?
- Appendix A. Accessibility and the law
- Is accessibility legally required? In some cases, yes. Read case history and precedent
- Appendix B. Language codes
- How to specify languages in Websites
- Colophon
- The making of Building Accessible Websites
- Bibliography
- For further reading
- Copyright
- Who owns the rights to this book (CD-ROM only)
- About the author
- Super-intimate biographical details about your accessibility author (CD-ROM only)
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