What is accessible web design? Why bother with accessible web design? Legal reasons

1. Usability Multimedia Authoring • What is accessible web design? • Why bother with accessible web design? • Legal reasons • Benefits to people without disabilities • How is the Web accessed by people with disabilities? Multimedia Authoring

2. Usability Accessibility • Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver Images • Use standard image formats • Provide height and width attributes for all images • Many images? Use thumbnails • Alternate Text Description (alt attribute) • Long Description (longdesc attribute) • Client side image maps Multimedia Authoring

3. Usability Accessibility • Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver Tables • table caption & summary attribute • Table headers Multimedia Authoring

4. Usability Accessibility • Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver Hyperlinks Headers Acronyms <acronym title="Kangaroo Flat Secondary College">KFSC</acronym> Using colour Multimedia Authoring

5. Usability Accessibility • Audio and Video • Web Captioning What are captions? They should be: Synchronized Equivalent Accessible Closed vs. Open captions Audio description http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/media/audiodesc.mp3 Transcripts Multimedia Authoring

6. Accessibility • Resources: • W3C Web Accessibility Initiative • http://www.w3.org/WAI/ • Adobe Accessibility Resource Centre • http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/ • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines • http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ • WebAIM • http://webaim.org/ • Internet Industry Association • http://www.iia.net.au/index.php/task-forces/38/92-web-accessibility-online-resources.html • Adaptive Technology Resource Centre • http://www.altcexchange.edu.au/adaptive-technology-resource-centre Multimedia Authoring