Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities (R & D Developer Series) [Paperback]

There are nearly 750 million people with disabilities world-wide, and the Internet provides a realm in which most of them should be able to participate to the benefit of all. Systems developed for the use of the average citizen in the everyday world often abridge the rights of the disabled, excluding them by making access difficult, cumbersome, unrewarding or even impossible. But more and more design experts recognise that in the wired world there is an opportunity to correct this injustice, though careful and thoughtful planning is necessary.

Web Accessibility for People With Disabilities provokes ideas on how a Web site for which you have responsibility can and should be made accessible to the whole community rather than unfairly restrictive. This book introduces to all the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), launched to raise the awareness of accessibility issues on the Internet and to encourage corrections. Positively, laws and standards for accessibility are being formulated and invoked.

Tips, tools, specifications and language (scripting) enhancements to make your Web site accessible abound in this practical book, and the author supplies details of sites from all over the world that can give advice, evaluation, or sometimes just service as a good example. --Wilf Hey

Comply with all legal mandates and standards; master HTML enhancements for accessibility; employ the best accessibility tools; and make your Web site accessible to everyone! Make your Web site accessible to everyone! This definitive resource provides everything you need to understand the laws, the needs of the disabled, and the processes of site evaluation and implementation. It includes development tools and utilities, techniques for adjusting HTML tags, scripts and other code to improve accessibility.

Mike Paciello is Founder and Chief Technology Officer of WebABLE, Inc., an accessibility education and consulting firm serving hundreds of organizations worldwide, including the White House, Adobe, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft. A leading authority on Web accessibility, Mike is the original creator and one of the primary forces behind the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative.