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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 4. Creating Accessible Content

In this chapter we are going to look at some of the nuts and bolts of creating accessible content. We will also look at some basic HTML code with a quick and simple refresher that I hope you will find useful.

In this chapter we will be rolling up our sleeves and getting under the hood with Joomla!. We will be looking at the following areas:

  • Using headings and other HTML elements to provide content structure

  • Providing alternative text to images

  • Using descriptive link text to assist accessibility

  • Using tables and how to mark them up appropriately

Describe What it is, Not How it Looks

We often format a piece of written content by changing the way it looks. For example, we may increase a heading's font size so it looks prominent and important, or highlight the text with a bright color or use bold or italics for emphasis.

So how do you describe the importance of these big headings or imply expressions like emphasis to someone who cannot see? One of the most important...