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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

Physical Disabilities


There are many kinds of physical disabilities. Some of them can be quite extreme. Physical disabilities can manifest in such a broad range of ways for many reasons. People can be born with physical disabilities or acquire them later in life due to an accident or old age.

Common mobility problems include tremors, shakes, becoming easily exhausted, or experiencing difficulty in movement. Many people with physical disabilities cannot use a mouse at all and therefore have great difficulty if websites are not keyboard accessible. In fact, ensuring your website is keyboard accessible is probably one of the greatest things you can do to help users with physical disabilities.