Guru accessible web design articles and tips
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Articles focusing on the technology available for users
- Passion + talent + specialization = success
Those who tap into their raw talents and passion get ahead further and faster in the ever-expanding Web world. - Automated testing - How useful is it?
A discussion about the value of automated testing and it's role within web accessibility auditing. - Accessibility Testing and Reporting with TAW3
Patrick H. Lauke gives a run-down of the free TAW3 tool to aid in accessibility testing of Web pages. - Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox
Patrick H. Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review. - Content Management Systems and Web Standards
When CMS vendors are constantly repositioning their products to align them with the latest buzz-words and industry fashions, it's easy to be deflected from concentrating on the most basic, but important issues - like ensuring that the resulting web pages will work on the web browsers of visitors to your site. - Your UK business website and the Disability Discrimination Act.
A FAQ for UK Businesses about accessible web design and the Disability Discrimination Act. - Don't use the statistics defence as a reason to exclude people from your content
Arguments against the 'statistics defence' for excluding users from accessing content of a website, e.g., 'we don't worry if our content is not accessible to someone who uses Netscape 4 because there as so few Netscape 4 users these days'. - What is an accessible website?
It is fairly easy to provides examples of the types of problems people with particular impairments have on the Web, and the techniques that can be used to make a site more accessible. But a simple definition; a sentence that sums up what an accessible website is, is not quite such an easy task. - 10 basic tests to check your website for accessibility
Want to check if your website is accessible? Run through these ten quick and easy tests and find out! - Web accessibility and the law in the UK: Is Your Website Legal?
Since 1999 websites have been required to be accessible to visually impaired and disabled Internet users under the Disability Discrimination Act. Find out what your legal obligations are. - How disabled users access the Internet
Different groups of people have unique needs when accessing websites. Find out what these are in this informative article. - Quick Accessibility Checks
Basic quick tests for some of the main Checkpoints within the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - A beginners introduction to standard markup and accessibility
What do we mean when we talk about standard markup - and how is it related to accessibility? - Is an Accessible Website Usable?
This article briefly discusses web accessibility and web usability, explaining the benefits of usable accessibility in making a website both accessible and usable. - CAPTCHA Resources
Whilst automated user challenges can be effective in limiting abuse by automated systems, they also pose significant accessibility barriers for some user groups. - Assistive Technology Resources
Online assistive technology sites and resources - The captcha question
The Captcha question - Looking at text and image captchas - The Web, what's in a colour?
The Web, what's in a colour? - Colour and it's importance on the Web - Article: Frames and accessibility
- Article: Accessible Web design: Colour
- Article: Making Data Tables Accessible
- Article: CSS accessibility problems: is markup dead?
- SEO and Accessibility
SEO and Accessibility can co-exist peacefully. One can be used as a catalyst for the other. With the changes in SEO techniques, and the real present need for standards and accessibility, consideration must be given by the web author for the marriage of the two, into one rich relationship. So cast your vote for SEO and Accessibility! - Writing good ALT text
