Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product (e.g., device, service, environment) is accessible by as many people as possible, and the ventures to produce accessible products and services. Accessibility is often used to focus on people with disabilities and their right of access to entities, often through use of assistive technology.
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Captions for Video with Flash CS3 (Part Two)
In this article, we’re going to look at a method of captioning a Flash video file: embedding the XML directly into the FLV file. In very simple terms, the XML document will contain the cue points for the captions. When one of those cue points is reached, the caption appears over the video.
Green, Tom. Digital Web Magazine (2007). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Flash
#32624
Captions for Video with Flash CS3
In the exercise that follows, and in the second part of this series, we are going to add captions, using both methods, to the same video. For those passionate about web standards, the first method involves the use of Timed Text captions. If you go this route, you need to follow the standard laid out by the W3C. There is a lot to it but, in a nutshell, it requires you to create a specific type of XML document using the required tags.
Green, Tom. Digital Web Magazine (2007). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Flash
#32635
Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Website
This article will explain some simple techniques which, if incorporated into the design of a website, will enhance its accessibility and usability for people who have a vision, hearing, physical, cognitive, or learning disability.
Tomlinson, Leona. Digital Web Magazine (2008). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Usability
#32833
Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization: Overview
There are initial costs for organizations implementing Web accessibility; however, the initial costs are often offset by a full return on investment. In order to be willing to invest the initial costs, many organizations need to understand the social, technical, and financial benefits of Web accessibility and the expectations of the returns throughout the organization.
Arch, Andrew and Chuck Letourneau. W3C (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Business Case
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Introduction to Web Accessibility
Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging.
Lawton Henry, Shawn. W3C (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32836
Ten Accessibility Blunders of the Big Players
More and more countries have passed laws stating that Websites must be accessible to blind and disabled people. With this kind of legal pressure, and the many benefits of accessibility, the big players on the Web must surely have accessible Websites, right?
Moss, Trenton. Sitepoint (2004). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Case Studies
#32837
Ten Reasons Clients Don't Care About Accessibility
Working as an accessibility consultant in an IT company is a very frustrating job right now. Highly publicized lawsuits and deep-rooted accessibility myths leave us with a lot to explain when the final product does not really help visitors. Our clients simply don’t care about accessibility as much as we’d like them to, and there are several reasons for that.
Heilmann, Christian. Digital Web Magazine (2005). Articles>Consulting>Accessibility>Web Design
#32838
Accessibility as Part of The Search Engine Marketing Strategy
In traditional marketing you're looking to define your targeted audience for your business or organisation. In Internet marketing things work in the same way. Unfortunately, with the growing popularity of the Internet in the past years and with the growing number of people building sites, a certain part of the online audience has been overlooked.
Big Mouth Media (2004). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Search Engine Optimization
#32839
Accessibility Is Just Another Language
Although typically we think of accessibility in terms of visual, hearing, dexterity, cognitive disabilities and so on, this concept of disability is very limiting in terms of the need for accessible technology. More than 50 million Americans have some sort of disability, and the numbers are increasing as the population ages. Tens of millions of people in the European Union (EU) and half a million worldwide have a disability. Disability knows no boundaries, languages or borders.
Broin, Ultan Ó. Multilingual (2004). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32840
Accessibility Issues Make a Difference
You often read advice from industry experts along the lines of "using tags as they were meant to be used" and limiting your use of advanced programming techniques in order to make your site accessible.
Claiborne, Scottie. Web Pro News (2004). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32841
Accessibility Tips for Website Construction
This paper provides ten key tips to help improve the accessibility of any website, or intranet. It's not intended to be an introduction to web accessibility.
Kennedy, Patrick. Step Two (2006). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
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The demand for accessible sites is growing, but web workers, like you, are often unclear how to make sites more accessible. Designing an accessible site isn't necessarily harder, but it involves unique limitations that make you approach design from a different perspective.
Pavka, Anitra. Digital Web Magazine (2002). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32843
Assessing Assessments: The Inequality of Electronic Testing
Computer and Internet based tests are used for a variety of purposes. From entering education or employment, to improving basic learning, people everywhere are taking electronically formatted tests. With the advancement of testing from traditional paper-based tests to technologically advanced electronic tests, people reap the benefits of easier access to tests, faster response times, and greater reliability and validity of tests. However, persons with disabilities are being left out of the picture and out of many typically-administered tests.
Lyman, Michael, Cyndi Rowland and Paul Bohman. WebAIM (2006). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Assessment
#32844
Attitudes to Web Accessibility
During the summer of 2003, we ran an online questionnaire, conducted interviews and carried out a literature review on Web accessibility. One hundred and seventeen respondents participated and they included designers, information officers and accessibility advocates. This initial set of results are intended to encourage debate on the subject.
Knight, John. Usability News (2003). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Surveys
#32845
The Benefits of an Accessible Website, Part 1: Increase in Reach
Some organisations are making accessibility improvements to their websites, but many are seemingly not making the accessibility adjustments. Disabled people don't access their website, they say, so why should they care?
Moss, Trenton. uiGarden (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32846
The Benefits of an Accessible Website, Part 2: The Business Case
Some organisations are making accessibility improvements to their websites, but many are seemingly not making the accessibility adjustments. Disabled people don't access their website, they say, so why should they care?
Moss, Trenton. uiGarden (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Business Case
#32847
Perhaps you're not legally required to make your site friendly to disabled users, but it's still good business.
Kuchinskas, Susan. Dr. Dobb's (2002). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32848
Captcha Usability Revisited: Google Inaccessible to Blind People
An online petition is being circulated to all Internet users for the purpose of collecting signatures showing support for Google to make its word verification scheme accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
Rønn-Jensen, Jesper. Just Add Water (2006). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Security
#32850
Constructing a POUR Website - Putting People at the Center of the Process
Web developers can create Web sites that are possible for people with disabilities to access, but only with great difficulty. The technical standards are important, but they may be insufficient on their own. Developers need to learn when and how to go beyond the technical standards when necessary.
Bohman, Paul. WebAIM (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32851
Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy
This article looks at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational websites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content. In particular the need is stressed for careful thought about the aims of such a strategy, and to ensure that the strategy meets a balance between ambition, legal responsibility and equitable access to learning and teaching. As an example, the need for a well written public online accessibility statement is discussed, not only as a demonstration of awareness and proactivity, but also as an important factor in its own right in optimising access.
Phipps, Lawrie, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder. Ariadne (2004). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32852
Essential Components of Web Accessibility
This document shows how Web accessibility depends on several components working together and how improvements in specific components could substantially improve Web accessibility. It also shows how the WAI guidelines address these components.
Lawton Henry, Shawn. W3C (2006). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
#32853
How Will the New Disability Standards for Education Affect What Universities Do on the Web?
On August 18, 2005 new Disability Standards for Education came into effect in Australia. Questions have been raised about how they may impact on the way universities publish resources on the web. In this article, I provide an overview of the new Standards, their general impact, and conclude that if organisations are already following the advice of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (on how to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 in relation to the web), the introduction of the Standards should make no appreciable difference.
Dey Alexander (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>United Kingdom
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When people consider disability and web use they often only think of blind people. But of course there are many types of disability which need to be considered when designing web pages. In this demonstration we try to give you a flavour of the kind of difficulties a range of disabled visitors can face.
Disability Rights Commission. Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
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Innovative Design Inspired by Accessibility
To design innovative Web applications that create opportunities rather than barriers, study the variety of characteristics of people, situations, and devices in your audience--it will give you new perspective from which to approach your design.
Chisholm, Wendy. Digital Web Magazine (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility
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Keys to Access: Accessibility Conformance in VET 
In this research, we aimed to investigate what VET training providers have achieved in terms of accessibility conformance; to reveal and understand the obstacles that may be blocking conformance and suggest strategies that will speed conformance.
Lamshed, Reece, Marsha Berry and Laurie Armstrong. Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Australia
