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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

Useful Tools for Developers


There are some very useful tools developers can easily add to their browser in order to help with the development of accessible websites, as well as simulating the experience someone with a disability may have when they are online.

A few of them are as follows:

Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C)

The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C) provides a collection of free tools to assist both the developers and designers in the development and testing of accessible web content. The consortium is a collaboration of some of the world's leading accessibility practitioners, founded by Accessible Information Solutions (AIS Australia), Infoaxia (Japan), The Paciello Group (USA), Wrong HTML (Japan), and Juicy Studio (UK).

There are several very interesting projects that WAT-C members have initiated, contributed to or been a part of. They include the following:

  • The Web Accessibility Toolbar (Version 1 and 2). Available in English, French and Italian.

  • The Contrast...