Accessibility and Usability (10 January 2005)
Closely related to the topic of standards and appropriate coding is the topic of web site accessibility. We'll talk about different kinds of accessibility, the reasons for building accessible web sites, and some techniques for making sure sites are accessible to all users.
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The reading for todays class was interesting. I was aware of the need to give accessibilty but did not think of some groups the reading had mentioned
Posted by: darryl on January 12, 2005 05:39 AM | Permalink to Commenthref link=http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/409/409-042/
Liked the article. I knew this was an issue but did no think of the scope of groups involved
Posted by: darryl on January 12, 2005 05:42 AM | Permalink to CommentIn "Drive to Accesibility", I read that javascript should not be used for links. In my midterm site, I used javascript for loading the photos when clicking on next or previous, instead of having many html pages for each group of photos. Did I make a mistake?
Posted by: Jesus Janne on January 17, 2005 08:58 AM | Permalink to CommentJesus, it's only an issue if javascript is the *only* way you can navigate. If it degrades gracefully on non-JS browsers, it's not a problem.
Posted by: Liz Lawley on January 18, 2005 12:44 PM | Permalink to CommentJust building off what Liz said, not only should links not be set entirely in Javascript for accessability reasons, but for purposes of SEO, most search engine spiders will ignore javascript and thus, the pages that are linked to through the js.
Posted by: Kevin Sweeney on January 19, 2005 12:56 AM | Permalink to Comment
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