- Author: Stephen Dampier
- Author: Dave Krause
Yesterday, your Web Action Team drove to Oakland to participate in an all day web accessibility training as part of UC's effort to meet Section 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. Not only are we required to meet Section 508 guidelines, we should also comply with WCAG 2.0 guidelines as Section 508 is a bit dated and not as comprehensive as WCAG.
While Site Builder 3 is in pretty good shape, we run many, many applications here, and our goal is to bring all of our systems into compliance. However, we can only...
- Author: Jon Wilson
The term 'Web Accessibility' refers to the practice of making webpages usable by as many people as possible.
Using a handful of conventions, web programmers can accommodate users with a variety of disabilities: impaired vision, impaired hearing, and illiteracy. These conventions are typically easy to implement and merely require that programmers and designers be aware of their importance. When done correctly, they offer a great boost to the ease at which users with disabilities can access online content.
Most of the conventions exist to help screen reader software--such as JAWS and ZoomText on Windows computers, and VoiceOver on Mac computers--jump to the main content of a webpage, increasing...