Accessible Web

Created 2011 February 16. Modified 2011 March 7.

This document is a place for my thoughts, the articles and research I've found so far on web accessibility (W3C).

ARIA

• WAI-ARIA Overview (w3.org) Introduction by the WAI
• WAI-ARIA 1.0 (w3.org) Technical document

WCAG

• How to Meet WCAG 2.0 (w3.org)
• Understanding WCAG 2.0 (w3.org)

Reading

To read or have read.

• Accessibility (microsoft.com) Microsoft on accessibility
  • Introduction to Web Accessibility
  • Semantic HTML
  • Introduction to ARIA
  • Accessibility and Legacy Browsers
• Clip your hidden content for better accessibility (Thierry Koblentz 2011 February yaccessibilityblog.com)
• Disabilities and Tests (JISC TechDis)
• HTML5 Accessibility Chops: the placeholder attribute (Steve Faulkner 2011 February paciellogroup.com)
  Label form elements; don't use the placeholder attribute as a label
• Scrap text resize widgets and teach people how to resize text (2007 September 456bereastreet.com)
• Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text) (2007 September accessify.com)
• Web Accessibility Preferences Are For Sissies? (2010 March webaim.org)
• Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? (Alex Poole alexpoole.info)

Notes

Enable Pixel Font Resizing in IE 6

1. Control Panel > Internet Options > Accessibility… > General Tab
2. Select "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages"

Could be useful if given in a website preferences page on how to resize text. Thanks to dotjay's comment on Accessify.

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Ibdy Dib Dave Smith

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