(a) A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via “alt”, “longdesc”, or in element content).

(b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation.

(c) Web pages shall be designed so that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup.

(d) Documents shall be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet.

(e) Redundant text links shall be provided for each active region of a server-side image map.

(f) Client-side image maps shall be provided instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape.

(g) Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables.

(h) Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers.

(i) Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates frame identification and navigation.

(j) Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.

(k) A text-only page, with equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions of this part, when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content of the text-only page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes.

(l) When pages utilize scripting languages to display content, or to create interface elements, the information provided by the script shall be identified with functional text that can be read by assistive technology.

(m) When a web page requires that an applet, plug-in or other application be present on the client system to interpret page content, the page must provide a link to a plug-in or applet that complies with §1194.21(a) through (l).

(n) When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.

(o) A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links.

(p) When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required.

Currently working for mynationwide.com redesign project.
I am responsible for whole css & xhtml coding. will post interesting updates on this projects soon.

On a balmy morning in India’s northern state of Bihar, young Raghav Mahato gets ready to fire up his home-grown FM radio station. It may well be the only village FM radio station on the Asian sub-continent. It is certainly illegal. The transmission equipment, costing just over $1, may be the cheapest in the world.

BBC.com had a good article on an DIY

• Universality: The notion of “anyone, anywhere, any device“. I think this is what people usually mean by accessibility.
• Interoperability: Processable by any software which is has general standards-compliance, including ones which aren’t perfect. Doesn’t just mean browsers: also includes search engines, Content Management Systems, etc.
• Device independance: Renders sensibly on any device (PC monitor, TV screen, mobile phone, PDA, tactile interface, speech output, etc) and on any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc) when using generally standards-compliant software.
• Accessibility: Has good usability for disabled people.
• Best practise: Attempting all the above!

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This document will summarize the level of support for web standards and maturing technologies in popular web browsers. It covers the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera web browsers, with focus on the HTML, CSS, DOM, and ECMAScript technologies.

http://www.webdevout.net/browser_support.php

This is the only CSS book i found in our library.
Strictly not for beginner. I hope it is helpful for my future CSS projects.

The meaning of alt text is to serve as replacement (hence, “alternative”) when the image the HTML intends to serve cannot be seen. There’s a variety of reasons for that to happen; the user is blind, the medium doesn’t support images, the user disabled images on purpose so she can browse on low-bandwidth, or the Googlebot comes around to visit.

For example, when your image is a mere illustration to a point you’re repeating elsewhere in the text, there’s no need at all to use the alt text. Because the image is not crucial to understanding the point. Most people however at this point heard some rumors that the “alt tag” is increasing accessibility; and possibly, they’ve heard somewhere else that accessibility is professional these days. And they also might want to see a tool-tip, not knowing that the title attribute would come in handy for that. (Wordpress in typical installations even creates an alt text based on the image’s file name; tools like Frontpage have committed similar silliness in the past.)

So, let’s say our blog post is titled “New AJAX Flavor Discovered” and the illustration following the headline is a shrink-wrap box with the shiny colorful letters “AJAX,” then repeating the letters AJAX in the alt text will result in something like this within alternative browsing contexts:

New AJAX Flavor Discovered
AJAX

Is this useful? No – the point of the illustration was to use a recognizable catchy visual, or to suggest that AJAX is hyped as a shrink-wrapped shiny product; the point was not to clarify (in text) that the article is about AJAX, as the headline already did a good job at that.

In XHTML2, by the way, some of us may be able to get rid of the alt attribute altogether. Why? In XHTML2 you can use the “src” attribute on anything, including e.g. a paragraph. It’s a bit like longdesc (today’s link to a longer image description) done right.

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