WAI-Overview
by charles mccn

Table of contents

• Making The Web Accessible
• Overview
• I. Why Accessibility?
• People: Doors opened by the Web
• People: Access for all
• People: Barriers to Access
• Design: Functional Requirements
• Design: Device Independence
• Design: Graceful Transformation
• Market
• Law
• II. W3C and WAI
• What WAI does
• III. Principles of Accessible Design
• Standards and conventions:
• IV. Quick Tips, Guidelines and more
• The Quick Tips
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• WCAG - hit and myth
• WCAG hit and myth
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
• The Authoring Tool Guidelines
• Authoring Tools - building the future
• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
• V. What does Accessibility look like?
• SVG - semantics for structure
• And user control of presentation
• Fix this - making a site accessible
• Fix 1: Ensure Scripts are accessible
• Fix 2: Provide equivalent alternatives
• Fix 3: Make frames accessible
• Fix 4: Specify colours appropriately
• Fix 5: Use meaningful link text
• Fix 6: Add structure
• Fix 7: Use style sheets
• A much more accessible version
• VI. Resources to Get Started
• Get Involved!
• Questions and discussion