http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/accessibility/ How to make your site more accessible, the latest W3C WAI Guidelines information, U.S. 508 guidelines, worldwide country regulations and guidelines, and related tips, tutorials, resources, and news about creating a more accessible website. en-us Accessibility Copyright 2000-2008 Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns. All rights reserved. Shirley Kaiser 2006-12-18T20:13:44-08:00 720 daily 2 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://brainstormsandraves.com/xml/brainstorms88.gif http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/accessibility/ 88 31 How to make your site more accessible, the latest W3C WAI Guidelines information, U.S. 508 guidelines, worldwide country regulations and guidelines, and related tips, tutorials, resources, and news about creating a more accessible website. The BrowserCam pool via fundable.org that I belong to is up for its annual renewal. It has a few openings for subscribers this time around. This subscription is for the BC-Complete plan, and the cost is US $26 for the 12-month subscription via fundable.org (information below). US $499.95 is the cost otherwise, so this is a fantastic value! (261 words, 5 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/12/18/browsercam/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/12/18/browsercam/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-12-18T20:13:44 There are lots of great new and recent articles, tutorials, and tips about Web accessibility. Today's post includes links to articles and tutorials on Web accessibility in general, accessible forms, accessible style switching, including my own site's style switching, accessibility and the blind and low vision users, helpful accessibility tools for Web developers, and more. (1412 words, 42 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/10/12/accessibility/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/10/12/accessibility/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-10-12T15:29:40 Jakob Nielsen and Andy King both have new articles at their sites that cover window resolution, user-friendly website design, and related issues. This important topic is also regularly discussed and debated in Web design and development discussion lists. Below I've highlighted their articles, but be sure to check them out in full, too (links below). (658 words, 9 links, 2 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/08/01/usability/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/08/01/usability/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-08-01T11:21:53 If you haven't commented yet or wish to comment on the latest working draft of the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), the comment period is now extended to Monday, 10 January 2005. See Judy Brewer's post yesterday, Extension of WCAG 2.0 Comment Period to 10 January 2005 [was: Fwd: Call for Review: Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0] for details and how to comment to the public mailing list. As Judy also states, the WCAG 2.0 "will apply to a wider range of Web technologies than WCAG 1.0 and is intended to be understandable to a wider audience." Here are some links to the working drafts and related techniques: (217 words, 7 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/01/04/wcag2/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/01/04/wcag2/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-01-04T10:14:16 Need to test your Website for accessibility? Testing with Lynx, the text-only browser, can give you helpful insight. As the result of a recent discussion via the Wise-Women discussion list, I wrote up a few tips about using Lynx, including links to downloads, online testing, and more: A few Tips for Using Lynx. (56 words, 3 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/10/05/lynx/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/10/05/lynx/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-10-05T09:37:05 One of the challenges in creating, maintaining, or redesigning a website, especially with larger companies, is that all too often the people making the major decisions are clueless about what matters the most with websites behind the scenes. Content is what truly matters the most, but the way it's delivered can unnecessarily cost a whole lot more with bandwidth, page load times, visitor satisfaction, and ultimately with lost revenue. (1217 words, 16 links, 3 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/07/30/money/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/07/30/money/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-07-30T18:08:05 I've got a major deadline today with my publisher, so this post is short, but the Wired news article and weblog posts I list below are so, so important to check out regarding Website design and development and the use of CSS. Jeffrey Zeldman's post today, Only defenestrate, put me over the edge, stopping me in my tracks to write this post here with the links below. (209 words, 8 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/07/28/css/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/07/28/css/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-07-28T12:04:37 Unfortunately, I'm not surprised by the unsatisfactory results found testing websites for accessibility as published in the July, 2004 issue of First Monday. A multitude of websites from Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany were tested, and fifty US government websites were tested for accessibility and standards compliance. The results were quite disappointing, as detailed in their two new articles. Read on for the details. (336 words, 4 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/07/19/accessibility/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/07/19/accessibility/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-07-19T09:38:29 Be sure to check out Accessible HTML/XHTML Forms, a recent tutorial on creating accessible, user-friendly online forms, by Accessibility expert Ian Lloyd of Accessify fame for the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Simple Tricks for More Usable Forms, by Simon Willison for SitePoint, is a recent, helpful tutorial to create more usable forms. Read my post about why, along with resources and links. (175 words, 14 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/07/06/accessibility/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/07/06/accessibility/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-07-06T11:28:36 Web Essentials 04 is an upcoming sure-to-be-exceptional workshop covering Web standards, accessibility, CSS, structural markup, and related issues. Scheduled for September 30th to October 1st in beautiful Sydney, Australia, the information-packed program and well-respected presenters could certainly make this upcoming workshop one of the most valuable to attend in the Web design and development field this year. (180 words, 15 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/05/09/essentials/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2004/05/09/essentials/ Shirley Kaiser 2004-05-09T10:40:52