Designing web accessibility

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 214-225

  Arrizabalaga, Rubén ^a   Smithers, Tim ^a  

^a MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

accessibility; CSS; design; disabilities; eEurope; HTML; section 508; usability; W3C; WAI; WWW

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651530382     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2005.006064     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee http://www.dptac.gov.uk.
2. Emergia. Bank’s websites http://www.emergia.net/investigacion/experiencia/banca/.
3. European Commission-eEurope http://europa.eu.int/comm/information_society/eeurope/actionplan/index_en.htm.
4. HTML Kit’s page http://www.chami.com/html-kit/.
5. HTML Tidy Library Project http://tidy.sourceforge.net.
6. Microsoft’s version of accessibility http://blacksunimages.com/usability/tsld015.htm.
7. Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the WWW http://www.w3.org/WAI/.
8. Design for all means creating products, services and systems to cater for the widest possible range of user abilities and circumstances for use, http://www.design-for-all.info/.
9. Emergia, created in January 2000, has been the pioneer company analysing user experience and accessibility in Spanish websites. Administration websites. http://www.emergia.net/investigacion/analisis/accesibilidad/.
10. Section 508 requires that Federal agencies’ electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. http://www.section508.gov.
11. Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility. http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/existingtools.html.
12. Bobby tests for compliance with government standards. http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/about.jsp.
13. InFocus is a software tool for making websites and applications accessible to blind and disabled people and compliant with Section 508 and the W3C’s WCAG. http://www.ssbtechnologies.com/products/InFocus.php.
14. TAW is a web tool to validate and analyse the level of accessibility of a website. http://www.tawdis.net/.
15. Torquemada offers to website developers a complete methodology for accessibility analysis which uses a tool for page checking that makes it possible to quickly identify which parts of a page are in error and the HTML code corresponding to these parts. http://www.webxtutti.it/testa_en.htm.
16. AccVerify provides for the verification of Accessibility policy and standards required for sites. http://www.hisoftware.com/access/.
17. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML, http://www.w3.org/XML/.
18. How to: Write HTML-Kit plugins. http://www.chami.com/html-kit/support/docs/pages/h000104.html.
19. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. W3C Recommendation 5-May-1999. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/.