#accessibility (449 links)
- The Form Assembly formassembly.com
The Form Builder is a tool for creating standard compliant web forms. It integrates the wForms extension and relies on a set of technologies like XML, XMLHttpRequest, XSLT and DOM (a.k.a Ajax) to provide a seamless single-screen experience.
- Readspeaker English first page readspeaker.fr
Readspeaker makes websites talk. It is easy to use and easy to implement. No backend reprogramming required and no plugins or software needed for the visitor.
Skip links help people other than just the blind. People who can’t use a mouse have to navigate another way, often with the TAB key.
- Screenreader Visibility - css-discuss css-discuss.incutio.com
- PhpLondonWiki : RnibVisit2005March3 phplondon.org
Lynn Holdsworth, our RNIB web savvy demonstrator, [demolished] several well known sites like amazon.co.uk (which no one really liked anyway) and google.com (which nearly everyone liked a lot).
- Web Standards Awards webstandardsawards.com
- v0.9.3 Web Developer Extension on chrispederick.com chrispederick.com
Newer version than on Moz Update
- AJAX and accessibility - Standards-schmandards standards-schmandards.com
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
- Invisible Information | joeblade joeblade.com
(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.
- Creating accessible bar charts - Standards-schmandards standards-schmandards.com
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")
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
- Accessible User Stylesheets - please help | CSS-Discuss archivist.incutio.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
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.
- Unobtrusive Javascript onlinetools.org
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.
- 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
- Learn : Accessible Forms webstandards.org
- Javascript - Usable forms quirksmode.org