As well as providing details on the requirements of different disability groups, the course will explain the technical options available and the practical consequences of choosing one path over another when attempting to achieve specific accessibility goals.

Introduction

• How disabled people access the web

Approach;

• Semantic markup: why bother?
• Separation of content from presentation
• Web Standards and document validation
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 

Tools & Methods

• Using document validators
• Using automated accessibility parsers
• Manual accessibility testing

Accessible Markup:

• Online forms
• Data tables
• Implementing additional accessibility features: pros and cons
• Web scripting issues

Usability testing: importance and scope