Joomla! Accessibility Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Why be Accessible?
• Defining Accessibility
• Understanding Your Users
• Dealing with Change
• Think Different
• What Are the Benefits of Accessibility?
• Accessibility Legislation
• Irish Legislation
• Accessible Procurement
• Laws and Public Policies in Other Countries
• UK Legislation
• The US and Section 508/504
• So What's the Big Deal with 508?
• The European Union (EU) and e-Accessibility
• eEurope Action Plan
• e-Inclusion Policy
• European Policy and the Future
• So What Does It All Mean to You?
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Understanding Accessibility
• What Will Joomla! Not Do?
• Usability
• User Testing
• Using Personas
• Building Personas
• Understanding Accessibility
• Being Accessible Doesn't Hurt
• WCAG 1.0
• Differences Between WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0
• Principle 1—Content Must be Perceivable (P)
• Principle 2—Interface Elements must be Operable (O)
• Principle 3—Content and Controls must be Understandable (U)
• Principle 4—Content Should be Robust Enough to Work with Current and Future Technologies (R)
• Understanding WCAG
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Understanding Disability and Assistive Technology (AT)
• Blindness
• Visual Impairment
• Glaucoma
• Macular Degeneration
• Retinopathy
• Detached Retina
• Physical Disabilities
• Cognitive Disabilities
• Assistive Technology (AT)
• What is a Screen Reader?
• Screen Magnification
• Switch Access
• How Do Switches Work?
• Mouse Emulation
• Useful Tools for Developers
• Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C)
• Mozilla Web Developer Toolbar
• Sitting Comfortably? Then we'll Begin
• Exercise 1—"No Frills" Browsing
• If You are Using Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Mouse Free Zone
• The Acid Test
• Finally—Was It Good for You?
• Try it yourself
• Exercise 2—Turn Off Your Display
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Creating Accessible Content
• Describe What it is, Not How it Looks
• All the (X)HTML You Need in Two Minutes
• Using Headings to Communicate Structure
• Time For Action—Let's Add Some Content
• What Just Happened?
• Time for Action—Adding Headings with WYSIWYG
• What Just Happened?
• Time for Action—Adding Headings by Editing the HTML
• Add Frequent Headings to Assist the Screen Reader
• How to Use Different Levels of Headings

• Another Important Element
• Lists
• Time for Action—Adding Lists
• What Just Happened?

• Make Images Accessible
• Description Anxiety
• Time for Action—Adding Alternate Text to an Image
• Choosing Good Alternate Text for Images
• What is Good Alternate Text?
• Ignoring Purely Decorative Images
• Charts, Graphs, and Infographics
• Describing Photographs
• Time for action—Using longdesc

• Good Link Text Assists Accessibility
• Creating Accessible Tables
• The Trouble with Tables
• Time for Action—Create an Accessible Table (Part 1)
• Time for Action—Create an Accessible Table (Part 2)
• Time for Action—Create an Accessible Table (Part 3)
• Does Joomla! Have Good Table Manners?

• Summary

• Chapter 5: Creating Accessible Templates
• Understanding How Joomla! Templates Work
• Separation Anxiety—Layout Tables, HTML, and CSS
• Joomla! 1.0 Used Tables for Layout, So What's the Problem?
• Why Are Tables Bad for Layout?
• Building a Standards-Compliant Joomla! Template from Scratch
• What Modules Do I Need?
• Color scheme
• Ensure Good Color Contrast for Your Site
• Icons and Graphics
• Create a Mock Up If Possible
• Roll Your Own Accessible Joomla! Template
• Using Dreamweaver
• Set Up FTP Server Connection to Your Local Host
• Create a Template for Your Template
• A Few More Steps, Before We Get Going with Coding Our New Template
• Selecting Your Template
• Choosing the Correct DOCTYPE
• XHTML Rules
• Just One More Thing
• Putting It All Together
• Basic Template Layout
• CSS Scaffolding
• My CSS Layout
• Just Before We Add Any Content Modules
• Adding Content Modules
• Module Options
• Finishing the Template
• Advantages of Joomla! Templates
• Editing Joomla! Templates
• Resizable Text
• How to Make Sure That Text Will Resize
• Without a Mouse
• Highlighting Links
• Some Basic Link Styles
• Skip Navigation
• Accessible Templates
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Using XStandard to Create Accessible Content
• Choosing Your Editor
• The XStandard Interface
• Styles Menu
• Tool buttons
• View modes
• Browser Preview
• Screen Reader Preview
• Help
• Context Menu
• Removing The "Noise" From Markup
• Using Correct Markup
• Relative Values
• Decorative Versus Non-decorative Images
• Data Tables
• Create a Table
• Edit Tables Using the Table Properties Dialog Box
• Edit Tables Using the Context Menu
• Abbreviations
• Screen Reader Preview
• What is Screen Reader Preview?
• Using the Screen Reader Preview
• Interface Accessibility
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Summary

• Index