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Joomla! Accessibility

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Joomla! Accessibility

Overview of this book

Understanding how to create accessible websites is an essential skill these days . You may even be obliged by law to create websites that are usable by the widest audience, including people with a range of disabilities.This book looks at what accessibility is and the various reasons, such as legislative or legal, as to why you really need to understand accessibility and then create websites that can be used by everyone. This book therefore examines the diverse range of user requirements that need to be considered for humans to successfully use web technologies.If you have no experience of being around, or working with, people with disabilities then it can be very difficult to successfully design user interfaces that cover their needs. This book will show you how you can both understand some of the various needs of people with disabilities and the technology they use to interact with computers and the Web.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Joomla! Accessibility
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Using Headings to Communicate Structure


The most important thing about the 'what this content is' tags are the headings.

A heading in HTML has a special meaning particularly for people using assistive technology (AT). Don't think that increasing the font size and changing the typeface is an OK alternative to using proper headings. Making your fonts bold or increasing the font size is only skin deep. Instead, make sure you use headings appropriately.

We'll see how to use headings appropriately in a moment, but first we need to find some content to experiment on.

Time For Action—Let's Add Some Content

When I put together some example for this book—which are some articles on Music—I divided them into four sections, Classical Music, Funk, Reggae and Soul. I took some articles from Wikipedia to use as content, as looking at endless streams of "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet etc", soon gets a bit old.

Note

So that's what you will see in the following examples. The text came preformatted with links, so...