Resources for Accessibility

[fleemo17@comcast.net]

I've started a new job as a Web Developer for the County, and
accessibility for users with disabilities is high on the organization's
priority list. I'm looking for suggestions on where to turn for the
best resources on assuring accessibility, be it books, seminars,
whatever.

Thanks.

-Fleemo

[Stan Brown]

Re: Resources for Accessibility

"" wrote in comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:[color=blue]
>I've started a new job as a Web Developer for the County,[/color]

We need a new Glen Campbell song. :-)

--

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA

http://OakRoadSystems.com/

[Adrienne]

Re: Resources for Accessibility

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed fleemo17@comcas t.net writing in
news:1112393592 .596256.28950@l 41g2000cwc.goog legroups.com:
[color=blue]
> I've started a new job as a Web Developer for the County, and
> accessibility for users with disabilities is high on the organization's
> priority list. I'm looking for suggestions on where to turn for the
> best resources on assuring accessibility, be it books, seminars,
> whatever.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Fleemo
>[/color]

http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-WCAG20-20020822/

--
Adrienne Boswell

http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info

Please respond to the group so others can share

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: Resources for Accessibility

Adrienne <arbpen2003@sbc global.net> wrote:
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-WCAG20-20020822/[/color]

Which says:
"This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by
other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C Working
Drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than "work in
progress"."

It's an incomplete, sketchy draft (one of many, and not even the newest
one, see http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ ) for a specification, and some
day there might be a WCAG 2.0 specification (though I wouldn't bet on
it - it looks like an eternity project). Even if it were a
specification, which it most definitely isn't, it would not help much
in _getting started_. (Specifications simply aren't tutorials, or
textbooks, though W3C specifications contain some tutorialish stuff -
IMHO they shouldn't, since specifications have their own role, and they
should be exact and concise.)

More useful: http://www.webaim.org which has
WebAIM - Web Accessibility in Mind
Begin main menu:
1. Techniques and Concepts
2. Coordination and Leadership
3. Products and Tools
4. Training Others
5. Getting Help from Others

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

[jake]

Re: Resources for Accessibility

In message <1112393592.596 256.28950@l41g2 000cwc.googlegr oups.com>,
fleemo17@comcas t.net writes[color=blue]
>I've started a new job as a Web Developer for the County, and
>accessibilit y for users with disabilities is high on the organization's
>priority list. I'm looking for suggestions on where to turn for the
>best resources on assuring accessibility, be it books, seminars,
>whatever.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Fleemo
>[/color]
Try:

Book:
-------
Constructing Accessible Websites
by Jim Thatcher, Cynthia Waddell, Shawn Henry, Sarah Swierenga, Mark
Urban, Michael Burks, Paul Bohman

Website:
-----------

http://www.jimthatcher.com

Lots of good (and practical) advice in both --especially regarding
Section 508 requirements.

regards.

--
Jake

[Andy Dingley]

Re: Resources for Accessibility

On 1 Apr 2005 14:13:12 -0800, fleemo17@comcas t.net wrote:
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>I've started a new job as a Web Developer for the County, and
>accessibilit y for users with disabilities is high on the organization's
>priority list.[/color]

http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/

Avoid the W3C / WAI stuff - too simplistic, too outdated.

[jake]

Re: Resources for Accessibility

In message <712t41pfh68rpj s196u497oam751l l6nh6@4ax.com>, Andy Dingley
<dingbat@codesm iths.com> writes[color=blue]
>On 1 Apr 2005 14:13:12 -0800, fleemo17@comcas t.net wrote:
>[color=green]
>>I've started a new job as a Web Developer for the County, and
>>accessibili ty for users with disabilities is high on the organization's
>>priority list.[/color]
>
>http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/
>[/color]
Yes. Lots of good stuff there.
[color=blue]
>Avoid the W3C / WAI stuff - too simplistic, too outdated.
>[/color]

--
Jake

[fleemo17@comcast.net]

Re: Resources for Accessibility

Wow, I hit the jackpot! Thank you, folks, for these excellent leads.
Jukka, the WebAim.org stuff contains some of the exact information I
was looking for. I can't thank you enough.

I had been to the w3.org site several times, but it's as dry as a bone
and was much like reading the list of ingredients off the side of a
cereal box. Somebody wake me up! I really appreciate these
suggestions.

-Fleemo

[Nick Theodorakis]

Re: Resources for Accessibility

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 21:01:01 -0500, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown @fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>"" wrote in comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:[color=green]
>>I've started a new job as a Web Developer for the County,[/color]
>
>We need a new Glen Campbell song. :-)
>[/color]

I am a web developer for the county
and I know how to code.
Searchin' for ways to speed my page load.
I hear you need accessibility,
So I need to redesign.
And the Wichita web developer is still online.


Nick (with apologies to Glen Campbell and this ng)
--
Nick Theodorakis
nick_theodoraki s@hotmail.com
contact form:

http://theodorakis.net/contact.html