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Segment 2: Web Standards & Accessibility Ted Drake, Yahoo Accessibility Lab Slideshare.net/7mary4
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What does an Accessible Site Designed with Web Standards Look Like?
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Topics Features of an accessible site designed with Web Standards? Beyond the blind When web standards is not enough Mobile Users
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Is your standards-based web site accessible?
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Maybe
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Web Standards Foundation
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Solid Versatile Semantic Data Device Independent
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Static
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Dynamic
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New Visual & Auditory Concerns Expandable content Editable text Drag and Drop Gestures Closed Captions Regularly updated content Dialogue boxes Keyboard focus control
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Drag and Drop Provide non-mouse alternative
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Expandable Content Button for expand/contract Place focus into expanded area Tell user the container can be expanded
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Video Accessibility
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Live Regions Define regions of the page that update automatically. Should the screen reader user get a notification every time it changes?
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Cognitive and Physical Concerns Memory loss Different cognitive levels of understanding content. What helps some will distract others Dyslexia Keyboard navigation Voice recognition
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Voice Recognition Dragon Naturally Speaking Images with text must have matching alt text. Don’t autofocus form elements Avoid multiple links to different URLs with the same text.
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Keyboard Navigation
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Avoid long sentences Avoid large blocks of text Avoid justified alignment Give the user white space Dyslexie: font designed for dyslexia Dyslexie
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Mobile Browsers and Accessibility
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New Device Same Accessibility Concerns
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iPhone and iPad Full featured VoiceOver Safari browser supports HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript Custom gestures will conflict with VoiceOver. No Flash support
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Android, Blackberry, Nokia Screen reader is available, but not as sophisticated as VoiceOver Use clean, structural markup for better performance Android’s browser is full featured. Blackberry and Nokia are not as robust.
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