T1 – Designing Web Pages for Accessibility

Steven C. Mills, University of Kansas, USA
Instructor e-mail: stevem@ku.edu

Web accessibility is based on design principles that accommodate the needs of a broad range of users, computers, and telecommunications. When a page is accessible, anyone browsing the web page will gain a complete understanding of page content and will have an undiminished ability to interact with the page. This tutorial presents strategies and techniques for accessible web page design and demonstrates examples of accessible and non-accessible web pages. This tutorial equips web authors with tools to design and publish web pages that satisfy conformity with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

Objectives:

(1) Define and explain web page accessibility including related legal issues.

(2) Describe the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C recommendations, HTML 4.0/XHTML 1.0 recommendations, Cascading Style Sheets, and other accessibility guidelines.

(3) Identify web page design principles that incorporate the accessibility features of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

(4) Demonstrate a set of web page design techniques and strategies that establish conformity with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

(5) Demonstrate accessible and non-accessible web pages viewed with a web browser or heard with a screen reader.

Intended Audience/Level:

This workshop is intended for new and experienced web page authors who want to improve the design of their web pages.