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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

Choosing Your Editor


You can choose the editor you wish to use by going to Global Configuration and making your choice with the Default WYSIWYG editor option there.

While writing this book I had some problems getting XStandard to display (due more to the fresh betas of Joomla! that I used), so I stuck to TinyMCE for most of the book and used it for many of examples in Chapter 4. I found TinyMCE effective as well (it's also quite accessible for screen reader users), but XStandard is also an excellent editor and we will cover its features in this chapter.

At the end of the day, the editor that you use really depends on your personal choice and preference.

Note

The latest version of XStandard 2.0 has some good accessibility features that can really help you when building your sites. It includes tools to help you generate accessible mark up, as well as a keyboard accessible interface.