Hour 21: Accessibility and Internationalization
The promise inherent in the name "World Wide Web" is an information network that can be used by everyone across the entire world. To a large degree this promise has been fulfilled, although there are still many groups of users whose needs aren't adequately met. To address these needs, the Cascading Style Sheets recommendations include specific support for accessibility by people with disabilities and for internationalization and non-English languages.
In this hour, you'll learn
- What hurdles people with disabilities face and how your use of CSS design can increase their accessibility to the Web
- Which standards relating to accessibility the W3C and the U.S. government have published
- How Aural Cascading Style Sheets are used, and which browsers for visually impaired users support them
- Which CSS features support internationalization and non-English languages
- How to write rules or style sheets that apply only to specific languages in your HTML
Sample Code
You can download the sample code from each hour as one package or individual files.
- Download all [0.6K tar.gz file]
- Listing 21.1 [CSS]
Web Links
These are the links presented in this hour, given here for easy reference.
- JAWS for Windows screenreader
- WindowsEyes screenreader
- IBM's Home Page Reader
- EmacSpeak
- CAST's Bobby Accessibility Checker
- Language codes
- International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
- Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
- The A-Prompt Accessibility Checker
- The HTML Writers Guild's AWARE Center
Updates and Errata
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