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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

Another Important Element


The following outlines what "lists" are in HTML. We will also look at how to mark up list items and when to use them.

Lists

Using lists items is also important when appropriate.

As with just making headings look big, it is not enough to just use an * or a - to signify list items. There is specific HTML code that you need to use in order to mark up lists. Fortunately the Joomla! WYSIWYG makes it simple to create lists.

Time for Action—Adding Lists

The following screenshot has a simple list of Motown Artists. Say you wish to turn it into a list. The text Motown Artists is made<h2> using the Format drop-down menu.

2)Highlight the list items that you want to turn into a list and then press the Unordered list button in the WYSIWYG toolbar.

3) The items will then be displayed as a properly marked up bulleted list as shown in the following screenshot:

What Just Happened?

Grouping related items not just looks good visually, but also helps the non-sighted users. When a...