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Accessibility is about making websites that don't exclude people with visual, aural, or physical disabilities. Through real-world examples, this practical book will teach you how to create or retrofit accessible websites quickly and easily.

This book is aimed toward web professionals creating accessible websites or updating existing sites to make them accessible. It's also useful for corporate, university, and government policy-makers involved in the development and maintenance of websites for their institutions.

The thorough and practical accessibility techniques outlined in this book come from some of the best accessibility professionals in the business. The techniques are illustrated and accompanied by real-world examples from live sites, demonstrating that accessibility is not the enemy of great visual design.

This book not only contains a detailed discussion of technical issues surrounding web accessibility, but also covers legal and policy issues, as well as the practicalities of implementing web accessibility, and integrating this technology into an organization. We will cover these areas in a thorough and comprehensive way, using plenty of practical and real-world examples, so that you can make your site fully accessible to people with disabilities.

How Do You Make a Web Site Accessible?

In Chapters 3 to 7 of this book, we attempt to demonstrate exactly how to create an accessible web site. The way in which your content is designed can make it completely inaccessible to a user who is visually impaired with a screen reader, yet a few simple changes to the HTML code can make all the difference. Not only does the content itself need to be accessible, but also the navigation, both within individual pages and around the site as a whole. Consider how confusing a poorly structured web site with badly designed navigation can be for a sighted person; this problem is further compounded for a person who is visually impaired.

In addition to offering solutions to these problems, we will also illustrate how to make forms completely accessible to users who are disabled and how to test your web site for accessibility. This section of the book thoroughly documents how the popular screen readers and voice browsers, such as JAWS for Windows (JFW), Window-Eyes, and IBM's Home Page Reader, handle web pages.

Integrating Accessible Solutions into an Organization

One of the biggest problems today is implementing accessible web technology in organizations. This book gives you not only the tools to implement the technology, but also deals directly with building a model to address implementing accessibility within your organization in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This is explained in Chapter 11.

This chapter provides a model of how to implement accessible web technology across your organization in a consistent manner. In this chapter, we also introduce the tools available to help spur on implementation of accessible sites, and discuss some of their advantages and disadvantages.

Quick Tips

A set of quick tips that are tied directly to the content of the book has been provided. It will allow all involved to get a good, quick look at the issues that must be addressed without going into massive detail.

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	Free Web Design/Develpoment ebook "Constructing Accessible Web Sites" Sample Chapter Constructing Accessible Web Sites Free downloadable Introduction ebook's Chapter Download chapter Accessibility is about making websites that don't exclude people with visual, aural, or physical disabilities. Through real-world examples, this practical book will teach you how to create or retrofit accessible websites quickly and easily. This book is aimed toward web professionals creating accessible websites or updating existing sites to make them accessible. It's also useful for corporate, university, and government policy-makers involved in the development and maintenance of websites for their institutions. The thorough and practical accessibility techniques outlined in this book come from some of the best accessibility professionals in the business. The techniques are illustrated and accompanied by real-world examples from live sites, demonstrating that accessibility is not the enemy of great visual design. This book not only contains a detailed discussion of technical issues surrounding web accessibility, but also covers legal and policy issues, as well as the practicalities of implementing web accessibility, and integrating this technology into an organization. We will cover these areas in a thorough and comprehensive way, using plenty of practical and real-world examples, so that you can make your site fully accessible to people with disabilities. next > > How Do You Make a Web Site Accessible? In Chapters 3 to 7 of this book, we attempt to demonstrate exactly how to create an accessible web site. The way in which your content is designed can make it completely inaccessible to a user who is visually impaired with a screen reader, yet a few simple changes to the HTML code can make all the difference. Not only does the content itself need to be accessible, but also the navigation, both within individual pages and around the site as a whole. Consider how confusing a poorly structured web site with badly designed navigation can be for a sighted person; this problem is further compounded for a person who is visually impaired. In addition to offering solutions to these problems, we will also illustrate how to make forms completely accessible to users who are disabled and how to test your web site for accessibility. This section of the book thoroughly documents how the popular screen readers and voice browsers, such as JAWS for Windows (JFW), Window-Eyes, and IBM's Home Page Reader, handle web pages. Integrating Accessible Solutions into an Organization One of the biggest problems today is implementing accessible web technology in organizations. This book gives you not only the tools to implement the technology, but also deals directly with building a model to address implementing accessibility within your organization in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This is explained in Chapter 11. This chapter provides a model of how to implement accessible web technology across your organization in a consistent manner. In this chapter, we also introduce the tools available to help spur on implementation of accessible sites, and discuss some of their advantages and disadvantages. Quick Tips A set of quick tips that are tied directly to the content of the book has been provided. It will allow all involved to get a good, quick look at the issues that must be addressed without going into massive detail.