Achieving Web for All: Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your Website (tutorial)

This workshop provides approaches for making your website more usable to more people in more situations -- especially people with disabilities, seniors, and people using the web on their mobile phone. Shawn will put standards and guidelines in perspective, and show you a new method for developing effective accessibility solutions efficiently.

We'll go through:

• Understanding the fundamental issues first
• How to get the most quickly from standards, guidelines, and best practices guides on accessibility and design for mobile phones, including WCAG 2.0
• Tools and techniques for testing
• Tips for evaluating prototypes/drafts as you go along
• Guidance on including people with disabilities in your project to learn how they really interact with your site

Along the way we'll look at specifics, such as providing scalable text (and we'll answer, "What about a text size widget?"); marking up headings, lists, and such; wording headings and links; forms; data tables; linearization (that is, reading order) issues; and JavaScript/Ajax issues.

Who's it for

This is a beginners to intermediate level workshop for anyone involved in web creation.