Multimedia Authoring 1

What is accessible web design?

Why bother with accessible web design?

• Legal reasons

• Benefits to people without disabilities

How is the Web accessed by people with disabilities?

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Multimedia Authoring 2

Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver

Images

• Use standard image formats

• Provide height and width attributes for all images

• Many images? Use thumbnails

• Alternate Text Description (alt attribute)

• Long Description (longdesc attribute)

• Client side image maps

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Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver

Tables

• table caption & summary attribute

• Table headers

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Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver

Hyperlinks

Headers

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Using colour

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Audio and VideoWeb Captioning

What are captions?

They should be:

Synchronized

Equivalent

Accessible

Closed vs. Open captions

Audio description

http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/media/audiodesc.mp3

Transcripts

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Resources: W3C Web Accessibility Initiativehttp://www.w3.org/WAI/

Adobe Accessibility Resource Centrehttp://www.adobe.com/accessibility/

Web Content Accessibility Guidelineshttp://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

WebAIMhttp://webaim.org/

Internet Industry Associationhttp://www.iia.net.au/index.php/task-forces/38/92-web-accessibility-online-

resources.html

Adaptive Technology Resource Centrehttp://www.altcexchange.edu.au/adaptive-technology-resource-centre