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Accessibility Evaluators Aren’t Worthless
As seen on our Resources page, there are a number of web accessibility evaluation tools available to developers. Most accessible web developers fall into three groups as it pertains to the value of these tools. Either they love them, hate them, or don’t really understand how to use them. The purpose of this article is to encourage those who love them to not overly depend on them, those who hate them to stop being haters, and those who don’t understand them to come away with an open mind.
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Specifications, Standards, Guidelines and Recommendations
Don’t be a slave to a standard.
By now, web standards should be something we are all used to. We can validate page markup against the Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) specification documents. We can check style sheets against the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) specifications.
Then there are guidelines…
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A Command of Headings: Usage and Styling
I command thee, headings. Do not defy me as I am the all-powerful web developer. I am your master for I wield a style sheet with which I can make you mine…
Wow! Where did that come from? It sounds so dramatic. And, yet, it so well defines our relationship with heading elements. Of course not everyone will feel this way. I, for one, recall a time when headings where something I avoided using. I mean, really, they’re so big and black and ugly. That was early-on in my foray into the craft, though, when paragraphs — or pseudographs as I like to call them now — were made by placing two break elements between two blocks of text. I didn’t know better. I didn’t realize the power I had at hand via my style sheet. I learned.
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Accessible Christmas Alphabet
C is for Client side scripting, progressive you’ll agree.
H is for page Headings that will help both you and me.
R is for Relative text — from pixels we’ll abstain.
I is for Identifying language or text that’s not mundane.
S is for Style sheets because they keep your file size small.
T is for Tabindex — don’t make it a bad call.
M is for the Markup — make sure a list’s a list.
A is for Alternative when images are missed.
S is for Skip links so TAB users never fret.
Be good and users will love your Accessible Christmas Alphabet!
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