Joomla! Accessibility: A quick guide to creating accessible websites with Joomla! - Brossura

Connor, Joshue O

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ISBN 10: 1847194087 ISBN 13: 9781847194084

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing, 2007

Riassunto

Creating accessible websites is essential. If you are building websites for government-funded organizations, then you may be obliged by law to create websites usable by people with a range of disabilities. If you're building sites for a business or any other kind of organization, building accessible sites will ensure that no part of your audience is excluded from reading your content. Joomla! provides all the facilities you need to make a web site accessible to users with a variety of disabilities. Not only can it produce accessible web sites, but with a few tweaks users of assistive technologies can work with the administration system to add, edit, and manage content. This book looks at what accessibility is and the various reasons, such as legislative or legal, as to why you really need to understand accessibility and then create websites that can be used by everyone.

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L'autore

Joshue O Connor is Senior Accessibility Consultant with CFIT (Centre For Inclusive Technology). CFIT is a part of the NCBI (National Council For The Blind of Ireland) and is a not-for-profit organization that provides expert advice and services to public and private sector organizations. These services include user testing, accessibility auditing and consultancy. Joshue has a creative background in Graphic Design, which lead to Web Development and New Media Training. After several years in the shark infested waters of the private sector, through IT training, he got to work teaching people with a wide range of physical and cognitive disabilities. This was an invaluable hands-on experience that brought him into contact with a diverse range of Assistive Technology users, who found technology a positive and enabling force in their lives. A natural gravitation towards Web Accessibility thus blossomed. Joshue is skilled in the design and development of accessible websites and has a deep understanding of the diversity of user requirements. He is a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS), the Web Standards Project ILG (WaSP ILG), the Irish Design For All E-Accessibility Network (Irl-Dean), the IIA User Experience Working Group (UEWG), EUAIN, and the HTML 5 Working Group. This is his first book, contributions to obscure academic papers notwithstanding. In his spare time he hangs out with his plants, studies computer science, plays Irish traditional music badly, and runs a small record label TechRecord.

Contenuti

* Get under the hood with Joomla! and learn how to modify Joomla! HTML output in order to make more accessible websites.
* Understand how to use WYSIWYG editors like TinyMCE and XStandard to create accessible content.
* Create accessible Joomla! templates.
* Understand some of the most popular assistive technologies (AT) and how they work.
* Gain a deeper understanding of some different disabilities.
* Get an overview of the legal requirement to be accessible.
* Gain some very practical guidance based on the authors’ years of practical experience working as a web developer and with people with disabilities.

Chapter 1 looks at the legal situation around the world and other drivers that put accessibility on the web developers’ map. This chapter also looks at some definitions of accessibility and introduces the concepts of usability and universality. The chapter explores the need to understand your users, accommodate diversity, and dealing with change as well as some of the benefits of accessibility.

Chapter 2 considers how both accessibility and usability make up a powerful combination for a holistic approach to web development and a positive user experience for everyone. The chapter looks at other practical ways of determining whether your sites are not only accessible but also usable, such as user testing. The chapter also looks at the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Chapter 3 looks at various types of disability as well as the variety of assistive technology that is available. You will also learn how to modify your browsing experience in order to try to gain a greater understanding of what it is like for people with disabilities when they go online.

Chapter 4 looks at using headings and other HTML elements to provide content structure. How this benefits users of assistive technology and other SEO (Search Engine Optimization) benefits. This chapter examines how to provide simple text alternatives to images and using descriptive link text to assist accessibility, as well as creating accessible tables and how to edit the HTML by hand.

Chapter 5 examines the importance of preparation while designing your template and the advantages of using accessible templates. The chapter also explains the importance of good color contrast and making your text resizable for visually impaired users as well as the making your interface keyboard accessible.

Chapter 6 looks at getting the most out of XStandard, while throughout most of the book TinyMCE was used.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1847194087
• ISBN 13: 9781847194084
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 156
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile