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Multimedia Authoring 1
What is accessible web design?
Why bother with accessible web design?
• Legal reasons
• Benefits to people without disabilities
How is the Web accessed by people with disabilities?
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Multimedia Authoring 2
Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver
Images
• Use standard image formats
• Provide height and width attributes for all images
• Many images? Use thumbnails
• Alternate Text Description (alt attribute)
• Long Description (longdesc attribute)
• Client side image maps
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Multimedia Authoring 3
Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver
Tables
• table caption & summary attribute
• Table headers
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Multimedia Authoring 4
Creating accessible content with Dreamweaver
Hyperlinks
Headers
Acronyms<acronym title="Kangaroo Flat Secondary College">KFSC</acronym>
Using colour
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Multimedia Authoring 5
Audio and VideoWeb Captioning
What are captions?
They should be:
Synchronized
Equivalent
Accessible
Closed vs. Open captions
Audio description
http://webaim.org/techniques/captions/media/audiodesc.mp3
Transcripts
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Multimedia Authoring 6
AccessibilityAccessibility
Resources: W3C Web Accessibility Initiativehttp://www.w3.org/WAI/
Adobe Accessibility Resource Centrehttp://www.adobe.com/accessibility/
Web Content Accessibility Guidelineshttp://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
WebAIMhttp://webaim.org/
Internet Industry Associationhttp://www.iia.net.au/index.php/task-forces/38/92-web-accessibility-online-
resources.html
Adaptive Technology Resource Centrehttp://www.altcexchange.edu.au/adaptive-technology-resource-centre