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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

Removing The "Noise" From Markup


In order to help you create a good clean markup, XStandard removes what is referred to as 'noise' from your markup. This 'noise' is basically anything that should not be in a clean, standards-compliant web page. This includes deprecated tags (which are tags that were once in the specifications for previous versions of HTML, but have now been dropped, so they are technically 'illegal' if we wish to be dramatic about it).

It also uses a CSS powered Styles Menu.

Using Correct Markup

XStandard encourages the correct use of markup by (for example) not using the<blockquote> element to force a paragraph indent for purely presentational purposes; so in real terms this means the editor will not display a left indent for content within<blockquote> elements.

<blockquote> should be used only for its intended purpose—which is marking up quotations.

Relative Values

XStandard supports the use of relative values for text size such as % and em. Using relative...