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Joomla! Accessibility

You're reading from   Joomla! Accessibility A quick guide to creating accessible websites with Joomla!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2007
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847194084
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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In this chapter we have learned how to:

Use headings and other HTML elements to provide content structure. Doing this will make your website more accessible to people with disabilities who use assistive technology, as well as those on mobile devices. Also there are SEO (Search Engine Optimization) benefits to structuring your content as search engines often look for keywords or pattern match sets of keywords and then return those results to the user.

Provide simple text alternatives to images and use the longdesc attribute for more detailed descriptions. While you may not use the longdesc attribute in your projects, it is still very useful to many blind users when they need detailed information about a diagram or image. Use descriptive link text to assist accessibility. We learned how a simple and common sense approach to your link names can be very beneficial to many users. Create tables and how to make them more accessible by editing the HTML by hand.

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