Seeking Best Accessibility Practices

Archive for “March, 2005”

Quiz 5.1: Testing and Screen readers

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

How do you test accessibility features?


What’s in your screen reader?

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

How do screen readers, or other assistive technology, respond to the practices we are testing here?


Quiz 1.1.1: ALT text for custom list markers

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Tom needs help with custom list markers.


Resources

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Standards and Guidelines
Accessibility related web sites
Assistive technology

Standards and Guidelines

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
U.S. Government Section 508 1194.22 (Web-based section - there’s lots more!)
An attempt to explain the UK Disability Discrimination Act’s impact on web accessibility

Accessibility related web sites

Still the best tutorial for introducing accessibility techniques: Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into Accessibility

Accessify.com
Apple […]


Quiz Numbering

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

The Access Matters quizzes have a numbering scheme based on the WCAG 2.0 principles.


What is this about?

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Join me in the search for accessibility best practices.

Are practices and techniques developed several years ago still valid as web technology evolves? As we move away from using tables for layout to using CSS for layout, what accessibility techniques need to be updated?