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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

Summary


In this chapter we have learned how to:

Use headings and other HTML elements to provide content structure. Doing this will make your website more accessible to people with disabilities who use assistive technology, as well as those on mobile devices. Also there are SEO (Search Engine Optimization) benefits to structuring your content as search engines often look for keywords or pattern match sets of keywords and then return those results to the user.

Provide simple text alternatives to images and use the longdesc attribute for more detailed descriptions. While you may not use the longdesc attribute in your projects, it is still very useful to many blind users when they need detailed information about a diagram or image. Use descriptive link text to assist accessibility. We learned how a simple and common sense approach to your link names can be very beneficial to many users. Create tables and how to make them more accessible by editing the HTML by hand.