Accessibility issues for disabled users

Here is an online book by Mark Pilgrim that will help us all as web designers understand and respect the needs of disabled users when navigating a website.

It takes the perspective of different people with different disabilities and helps a non disabled user understand the importance of making sites as inclusive as possible as well as giving clear tips on achieving this .

http://diveintoaccessibility.org/

Absorbing this information will help you consider certain issues before you begin designing your site rather than attempting to modify a site after it has been built.

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Thanks PC

Accessibility is never far from web builders minds, and thank you for the link.

Happy new year RogerG

[quote:a9ff786fe6=”Percival Cheesehead”]Here is an online book by Mark Pilgrim that will help us all as web designers understand and respect the needs of disabled users when navigating a website.

It takes the perspective of different people with different disabilities and helps a non disabled user understand the importance of making sites as inclusive as possible as well as giving clear tips on achieving this .

http://diveintoaccessibility.org/

Absorbing this information will help you consider certain issues before you begin designing your site rather than attempting to modify a site after it has been built.[/quote:a9ff786fe6]

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Thanks for the link. I think you have to know a bit of code in order to implement some of the things he says… and my experience of building web-sites is very limited, let alone coding. I am currently trialing Freeway Pro 5 and I try me best to make the web-sites I built by using Alt Text on the images I use .

On the subject of accessibility, is it possible to do Access Keys using FP5? If so, how is it done?

I quite like to do something like this >> http://www.prevista.co.uk/accessibility.aspx

Any help would be appreciated.

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On the subject of accessibility, is it possible to do Access Keys using FP5? If so, how is it done?

I have just worked it out. If anyone is interested the way to do it is to make a text Hyperlink as you normally do, click on the internal tab select the page you want the link to go to and at the bottom left there is an Access Key option, type whatever letter or number you fancy. Test it and voila!

Bear in mind that there are some guidelines on how to use certain keys as pointed out on the link I posted the other day.

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