The Role of Standards in Accessible Web Design
by Shadi Abou-Zahra

Table of contents

• Standards and Accessible Web Design
• World Wide Web Consortium W3C
• Web Accessibility Initiative WAI
• What is Web Accessibility?
• Why is Web Accessibility an issue?
• Examples of Barriers on the Web
• Who is affected by Web Accessibility?
• Benefits of Accessible Web Design
• How to achieve Web Accessibility?
• What is Web Content Anyway?
• Web Developer Perspective
• Web User Perspective
• Dependencies Between Components
• When Components Are Weak...
• Components of Web Accessibility
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
• WCAG 1.0 Structure Diagram
• Example of WCAG 1.0 Guideline
• WCAG 1.0 Techniques Gateway
• Example of WCAG 1.0 Technique
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
• WCAG 2.0 Structure Diagram
• Components of Web Accessibility
• Putting it all Together
• WAI-TIES Best Practices Training
• Thank You!