Published on 2006-03-17 18:52:04
In the second part, titled Basic Checkpoints, and introducing also the most useful checkpoints that a developer should do to evaluate the accessibility of a website. The basics checkpoints are :
1. Validate HTML and CSS
2. No frames, please
3. Automated accessibility checking tools
4. Images and alternative text
5. Make sure that JavaScript is unobtrusive
6. Increase text size
7. Look for semantic markup
8. Disable CSS
9. Use Fangs to emulate a screen reader
The third part, is coming soon will be about takeing a look at things that are difficult to test with automated tools and require more time and/or experience to evaluate manually. An excellent roundup to accessibility in three parts, that I find it very useful.
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