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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

Building a Standards-Compliant Joomla! Template from Scratch


As I mentioned earlier I am assuming that you already know how to build a Joomla! template. What we will focus on here is what to look out for, whilst ensuring that the template is as accessible as possible. Once you have got to grip with how to build your template, or modify an existing one, for it to be considered more accessible, there are only a couple of major issues that you need to keep in mind while designing. There are many advanced aspects of using Joomla! templates, such as using image replacement techniques for graphical headers, or adding AJAX functionality; and these have specific workarounds in order for them to be considered accessible. However, there are more advanced techniques that we will not cover here as what I want is for you to start with an accessible canvas that you can later add to, if you wish.

So briefly I will look over what core areas you need to have ready in order to put the whole thing together...