MM 440:
Web Presentation

Lecture//Accessible Design

Overview
The Question
Differences in Perception
Access Technologies

What to Consider
Background and Text
Images
Links
Frames
PDFs
Shockwave
Tables
User Interaction
Testing
Best Practices

Further Info

The following pages provide some simple tips to help you design web pages that will be accessible by everyone. These are largely based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) which is part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

The following tips given here are an introduction to some of the issues that should be considered when designing for accessibility. If you follow these suggestions, you will already have gone a long way towards ensuring that your web pages achieve a good standard of accessibility.

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