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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

Sitting Comfortably? Then we'll Begin


Now that you know a little bit more about different kinds of disabilities, the various AT available to help users browse the Internet, and some useful tools for you as a developer. I would like you to try the following exercises as well. I hope that it will help you to further understand what it is like to browse the Internet in a restricted fashion and maybe then you can gain a deeper understanding of what it will be like for people with disabilities when they go online.

These exercises are a poor substitute for interacting directly with people with disabilities and talking to them about their experiences, but I hope you find them useful anyway.

I call the first exercise "No Frills" browsing.

Exercise 1—"No Frills" Browsing

The idea behind "No Frills" browsing is that you will try to emulate the experience that people with disabilities may have when they go online. The purpose of the exercise is to get you to think about the common barriers that people...