Wendy Chisholm

Universal Design for Web Applications (eBook, PDF)

Web Applications That Reach Everyone

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Universal Design for Web Applications teaches you how to build websites that are more accessible to people with disabilities and explains why doing so is good business. It takes more work up front, but the potential payoff is huge -- especially when mobile users need to access your sites.You'll discover how to use standards-based web technologies -- such as XHTML, CSS, and Ajax, along with video and Flash -- to develop applications for a wide range of users and a variety of devices, including the mobile Web. You'll also learn specifics about this target audience, especially the key over-50 age group, whose use of the Web is rapidly growing.With this book, you will:Learn the importance of metadata and how it affects images, headings, and other design elementsBuild forms that accommodate cell phones, screen readers, word prediction, and moreCreate designs using color and text that are effective in a variety of situationsConstruct tables that present information without spatial cuesDesign Ajax-driven social networking applications that people with disabilities can accessProvide audio with transcriptions and video that includes captions and audio descriptionsDiscover assistive technology support for Rich Internet Application technologies such as Flash, Flex, and SilverlightUniversal Design for Web Applications provides you with a roadmap to help you design easy-to-maintain web applications that benefit a larger audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780596803216
• Artikelnr.: 52842231

Autorenporträt

Wendy Chisholm is a consultant, developer, author, and speaker on the topic of universal design. As co-editor of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) and then staff at the World Wide Web Consortium, she has worked with people around the globe to make the web accessible. Currently residing in Seattle, WA, Wendy consults with market leaders such as Microsoft, Adobe and Google, integrating universal design concepts into their tools and technologies. She continues to further the research and development of universal design as a part-time staff at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Preface
Audience
How to Read This Book
A Chapter Breakdown
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari® Books Online
How to Contact Us
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introducing Universal Design
1.1 Accessible Design: A Story
1.2 Putting Universal Design to Work
Chapter 2: Selling It
2.1 There Is No "Them"
2.2 Audience Characteristics
2.3 Growth Opportunity
2.4 Legal Liability
2.5 The Standards
2.6 Professionalism
2.7 Early and Often
2.8 Summary
Chapter 3: Metadata
3.1 What Is Metadata?
3.2 Images
3.3 Keys to Writing Good Text Alternatives
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4: Structure and Design
4.1 First Principles
4.2 Headings
4.3 Links
4.4 Tables
4.5 Lists
4.6 Color
4.7 CSS Highlights
4.8 Flicker and Patterns
4.9 Designing for Email
4.10 Summary
Chapter 5: Forms
5.1 Labels
5.2 fieldset and legend
5.3 The accesskey Attribute
5.4 Tab Order
5.5 Error Handling
5.6 CAPTCHA
5.7 Summary
Chapter 6: Tabular Data
6.1 Data Table Basics
6.2 Headings and Data
6.3 Complex Data Tables
6.4 Readability, Layout, and Design
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7: Video and Audio
7.1 Web Video: The Early Years
7.2 Accessibility in Video
7.3 Transcripts and Text Alternatives
7.4 Summary
Chapter 8: Scripting
8.1 Building on a Solid Foundation
8.2 Summary
Chapter 9: Ajax and WAI-ARIA
9.1 Taking Stock of Existing Code
9.2 Summary
Chapter 10: Rich Internet Applications
10.1 Features of RIAs
10.2 User-Generated Content
10.3 Testing Your Code
10.4 Summary
Chapter 11: The Process
11.1 Universal by Design
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