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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

Mouse Free Zone


Ok, so you have, one way or the other, modified your browser. Now what do you do? If you think that you have gotten off lightly, think again! I want you to abandon your mouse. Yup. Plug it out. Throw it away to be dramatic and have that sense of no going back—if you like—but whatever you do don't reach for it while you are in 'No Frills' mode.

Soon you will have a taste of what the Web is really like for many users, like those who rely on the keyboard alone to navigate online. This will hopefully also hammer home how important it is for the Web interfaces that you design to be keyboard accessible.

The Acid Test

In order for the test to work, it is important that you pick a few tasks to do with each of the sites that you visit. There are no hard and fast rules about how many sites you choose to visit. In fact one site that you are used to and can perform a real world task such as buying something, writing a blog post, or adding some kind of rich media content to, are all representative...