Functional web accessibility techniques and tools from the University of Illinois

Jon Gunderson, Hadi Bargi Rangin, Nicholas Hoyt

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Abstract

For web developers to create functionally accessible web resources they need more than general guidelines and tools that provide them with lists of manual accessibility checks. Web developers need specific web accessibility techniques and tools that help them verify they have correctly implemented the techniques. The techniques also need to support the wider concepts of the web of interoperability and device independence. The CITES/DRES Functional Web Accessibility Best Practices provide developers with specific techniques and requirements to implement Section 508 and W3C WCAG 1.0 requirements. The use of the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluation (FAE) Tool and the Mozilla/Firefox accessibility extension provide free and open source tools to allow developers to verify they have used the best practices.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2006
Pages269-270
Number of pages2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
EventEighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2006 - Portland, OR, United States
Duration: Oct 23 2006Oct 25 2006

Publication series

NameEighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2006
Volume2006

Conference

ConferenceEighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPortland, OR
Period10/23/0610/25/06

Keywords

  • Accessibility
  • Best practices
  • Dynamic HTML
  • Evaluation
  • Firefox
  • Mozilla
  • Scripting and techniques
  • Tools
  • Web

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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