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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

Chapter 3. Understanding Disability and Assistive Technology (AT)

In this chapter, I will share a few of disabilities types and how users with these disabilities could use technology.

I also understand how difficult it would be for you to successfully design and build accessible websites for users with varying degrees of abilities, especially if you have no experience of interacting with people who have disabilities. It can seem like a tall order, and in many ways it is. However, I hope that this chapter will help you to understand some aspects of disability. At the very least I hope that you will understand how diverse we as a species really are.

Blindness

There are many different degrees of blindness. I work for the National Council for the Blind of Ireland and most of our services are for visually impaired users and not users who are completely blind.

For example, a friend of mine can see perfectly well, but has a very rare and extreme form of dyslexia and is legally registered blind. He...