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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

Understanding Accessibility


You may have your own knowledge and experience of accessibility. This could range from little, to a lot. It could be based on your experience, things you have read during your own research, or stuff that you have picked up from colleagues and fellow developers based on their experience and research.

You may not know any people with disabilities or any people who use assistive technology (AT). Much of what you have heard could come from second or third hand information that could either be wrong, or worse, misleading.

You may have downloaded a demo copy of a screen reader and realized that it a very complex piece of software that you can't just hop into and drive off with. Well, not smoothly anyway.

You may have read about certain assistive technology and are trying to picture in your mind how it may work. I am aware that this approach is very difficult. If it is possible for you to gain some hands-on being experience of being with people with disabilities and watch...