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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

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Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development

Overview of this book

Free, open-source, flexible, and scalable, TYPO3 is one of the most powerful PHP content management systems. It is well suited for creating intranets and extranets for the enterprise. While providing an easy-to-use web interface for non-technical authors and editors of content, its messaging and workflow system enable shared authoring and collaboration. TYPO3 provides flexible and powerful interfaces for both content editors and administrators, giving them full control of the core aspects the system. However for developers who need to customize the system, TYPO3 offers a powerful configuration language called TypoScript. Good knowledge of TypoScript is really a prerequisite for implementing complex applications with TYPO3 and gives developers full control over the configuration of TYPO3 and its template engine. TypoScript enables the complete output template to be created and manipulated, giving you full control over the layout of the site. TypoScript also allows you to integrate dynamic contents, JavaScript-based menus, Flash, Graphics, etc. with ease. You have maximum control over the design of the website and can control all options that would otherwise be addressed by HTML-simple text output, formatting, and much more. TypoScript also allows you to generate graphics at run time and display different content dynamically.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering TypoScript: TYPO3 Website, Template, and Extension Development
Credits
About the Author
Preface

Chapter 12. Barrier Freedom

There are no two ways about it—creating a barrier-free website with TYPO3 requires a huge effort. HTML tables, in particular, are difficult to adapt to barrier freedom. We are not going to discuss the foundations of barrier-free web designs and their advantages here. You can stay informed about current developments and specifications of current developments and trends on the pages of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) that was founded by W3C. The W3C has defined a list of the items to be checked with regard to accessibility for web content and the measures that are necessary to make web content barrier free. A few of the aspects that are especially important when working with TYPO3 are detailed in the following list:

  • Content and layout should be separated using CSS formatting.

  • Navigation through pages should be possible using both mouse and keyboard.

  • Table layouts should be avoided.

  • Data tables should have structured elements.

  • Graphics should be augmented with...