Understanding the Accessibility Guidelines

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) offers a series of guidelines on how to improve the accessibility of your site. How to make it available and usable to the maximum number of people, by taking into account various disabilities and conditions. If your building a site for the public sector, education you'll have to be aware of these, and even if not, the given the benefits of an enlarged userbase, they are well worth putting the effort to learn anyway.

The main guidelines can be found on the WAI site at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ , but are quite in depth. In this tutorial we're going to summarise what the various checkpoints mean for the everyday web designer, how you can test how well your pages comply with them, and some issues to be aware of.

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Matt Machell

Matt MachellA man of many talents, Matt has been a web designer, technical editor, and jewellery picker. He is currently on contract for the Birmingham City University, producing pages for research centres.

He has tech-edited a dozen books on web design and development for glasshaus, Apress and Sitepoint.

He likes music with loud guitars and games with obscure rules.

His website can be found at: http://www.eclecticdreams.com

He lives in Birmingham with his girlfriend, Frances, and a horde of spider plants.

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