Building Accessible Websites

Using a strategic approach to the issues in a journalistic style, this book will be a foundation for how people think about this issue going forward-the first book people would read on the topic, before delving into the minutiae of the moment.

With lawsuits and human-rights complaints proliferating, and with simple awareness of accessibility percolating through the industry, soon it will be hard to find a web shop that won't be producing accessible sites, whether it presently has the experience and know-how or not. Government mandates, lawsuits from disability groups, more non-English speaking web users, and an increasing population of Web-enabled devices make this a vital topic.

Table of Contents

The Access Manifesto.
1. How to Read This Book.
2. Why Bother?
3. How Do Disabled People Use Computers?
4. What is Media Access?
5. The Structure of Accessible Pages.
6. The Image Problem.
7. Text and Links.
8. Navigation.
9. Type and Colour.
10. Tables and Frames.
11. Stylesheets.
12. Forms and Interaction.
13. Multimedia.
14. Certification and Testing.
15. Future Dreams.
Appendix A. Accessibility and the Law.
Appendix B. Language Codes.
Bibliography.
Colophon.