Understanding Accessibility
A Guide to Achieving Compliance on Web Sites and Intranets - by
Robert B. Yonaitis
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Understanding Accessibility is the latest book
from HiSoftware. This book combines both a comprehensive guide to
understanding the concepts behind creating Accessible Web Content
as well as a complete accessibility remediation guide that allows
you to quickly make your site accessible.
What’s in this book?
This book introduces the accessibility initiative and challenges. It
provides a complete reference on accessibility remediation. Detail
on each section follows:
Chapter One: Getting Acquainted with the
Accessibility problem and its challenges
In this section you will learn about the history of the
accessibility initiative, about the principal organizations that
develop standards and the governing US laws, and you will also learn
the about the types of disabilities addressed by the requirements.
Chapter one also directs you to different organizations that can
provide help to your organization and provides you with the
justification on why you should build your Web site in an accessible
format.
Chapter TWO: The checkpoints and their meaning
In this section you will learn what each checkpoint is, what the
goal of the checkpoint is and information on how to successfully
address the use of the same.
Chapter THREE: Developing a strategy for
Accessibility compliance
In this section you will learn how to define training requirements
as part of an initial site accessibility assessment.
Chapter FOUR: Managing accessibility testing
In this section you will be introduced to the task of accessibility
testing of Web pages and entire Web sites. In addition you will be
introduced to testing, repair, and monitoring tools. We will briefly
discuss content management systems and existing testing
architectures.
Chapter Five: accessibility & Dynamic Content
In this section you will introduced to the relationship between
dynamic content and the task of making it accessible. This section
will include two cases studies to demonstrate accessibility issues
with dynamic content.
Chapter SIX: The unseen meaning
Metadata for accessibility
In this section you will learn how to use metadata as a means to
increase your pages accessibility.
Writing text equivalents
In this section you will learn the best and worst practices for
creating alternative text for non-text objects on your web page.
Accessibility and images
In this section you will learn how to properly assign alternative
text to images and why. Additionally, we will point out some
common but flawed practices for assigning alternative text to
images.
Chapter SEVEN: TUTORIAL: CORRECTING
ACCESSIBILITY ERRORS
This section is a comprehensive tutorial on correcting accessibility
errors, with full HTML examples, to meet W3C Priority one and US
Section 508 Standards for accessible Web content.
Chapter EIGHT: Use accessible solutions
In this section you will learn about the accessibility requirements
for software under the US Accessibility rules. You will also be
introduced to the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, (“VPAT”).
Chapter NINE: Accessibility resources and
further reading
This section provides you with additional information and resources.
2 Appendixes, Index, and Glossary
