/ Web Accessibility for XML People and Publishers

Overview

The Web is for everyone, and our pages should be too. The growing importance of Web site speed and simplicity also means an increased focus on accessibility. This course is for you if you make Web pages. The main focus is on making Web pages with XSLT or XQuery, or for large bodies of content such as reference books or journals, documentation, or Pam Ayres poetry.

Course Structure

• Why accessibility matters: includes talking points you can use to help others understand what might seem obvious;
• The Web by console and keyboard: what to do when you can’t mouse, what Web authors have to do to make this work well, some ways to test it, and why it matters more than many people think.
• Making the audible Web: acoiding the interminable with semantic maekup, with skip links, and with tools such as CSS Grid.
• Considerations for Collaboration: similar experiences for distributed folks.
• Responsive Hamburgers - every person, every place, every device.
• XML Markup for accessibility : what to do differently in your XML source documents.
• Colours, sizes, optical illusions, people have different eyes.
• Images, pictures, figures & captions.
• JavaScript and ARIA and principles to do and avoid.
• Typefaces and sites that work with Web fonts disabled, images disables, JavaScript disabled.
• Main sites for resources to trust, and how to read the specifications.
• Round table discussion. Or it could be a polygonal table since it’s virtual.
• Appendix: the crazy jargon so you can search effectively.

A goal of the course is that you can also find out more by confidence in reading the specifications.