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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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While accessibility is very important it is not the full picture when it comes to a good user-interface design and there are other important aspects to be considered such as usability. For me, accessibility and usability make up a powerful combination for a potent holistic approach to web development and a positive user experience for everyone.

User testing is a really practical way of determining whether your sites are not only accessible but also usable, and this important method for qualitative analysis really does lift accessibility and usability out of the arena of being merely a theoretical or academic exercise.

User testing can really give you positive proof that all of your hard work—in getting to the point where you can say that your interfaces are accessible and usable—has really paid off.

Regarding WCAG, much of what is suggested in the WCAG guidelines is in many ways common sense, if you give it some thought. What I hope to do is provide you with a step-by-step way of creating...

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Joomla! Accessibility
Published in: Oct 2007
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781847194084
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