Dennis is looking for an Accessibility guru who wants to be part of at least one podcast on Web Axe. If interested just send Dennis an email at web axe at gmail dot com. Topic ideas welcomed.
Month: October 2005
We all know that PDF files (Adobe Acrobat) are very common in the workplace and on the web. Learn how to make them Accessible in this tenth podcast of Web Axe.
Links:
- Adobe on PDF Accessibility
- WebAim’s PDF Techniques
- A List Apart on PDF Accessibility
- Make Accessible Plug-In for Acrobat 5
We know about PDF files. Our PDF converter allows you to convert PDF to Word as well as PDF to Excel so you can use and analyze without retyping.
I found a great article from Digital Web on the frustrations of getting the client to understand the need for web accessibility.
10 Reasons Clients Don’t Care About Accessibility
What are your thoughts?
Techniques and discussion on setting the tabbing sequence and creating access keys for elements on your HTML page.
- W3C Checkpoint 9.4 (Priority 3)
- W3C Accesskey Attribute
- W3C Tab Index Attribute
- WebAim on Keyboard Accessibility Enhancement
Sample Code:
So, you’ve done all you can to make your site fully accessible. And now you have to test it! There are many different methods and opinions of what the best way is, as Dennis explains, and auto-checker applications are only a small piece of the pie.
Great tools for testing web accessibility:
- Cythia Says
- A-Prompt
- Watchfire WebXACT
Firefox Web Developer ToolbarAccessibility Toolbar (IE 5+)- Testing with Screenreaders from WebAim
- WAVE from WebAim
- ATRC Web Accessibility Checker
- Opera 8
UDPATE AUG 2009!