How To ...Index

• make sure text content can be enlarged, have its colour and background varied by the user, be read to the user by a screen reader, printed on paper or presented by a Braille reader
• provide good navigation without frames (because they are not accessible to everyone) - use them only if there is also a noframes version that is accessible and remember that people don't know how to bookmark frames...so best recommendation is don't do frames....
• use images and image maps so no-one misses important content or links
• create accessible tables that can be looked at or listened to or read as text with meaning
• use forms and buttons and provide security for information that flows to and from the user
• add objects to a page
• determine the layout for your content
• use external references and cross-referencing among web pages
• make accessible mathematics and science pages, including symbols, that are universally accessible - using MathML
• document computer programs in an accessible way - with code, input and output, variables etc
• use metadata to help people and search engines find the resource
• offer a Shockwave media resource and equivalent alternatives for the benefit of all students
• make an XHTML page from an HTML page
• deal with synchronous communication tools such as chat - see http://nide.snow.utoronto.ca/SyncComm/index.htm
• write music for everyone - see http://nide.snow.utoronto.ca/music/index.html
• use interactive learning materials - see http://nide.snow.utoronto.ca//accessITL.htm
• add Javascript, Java and Applets or use SMIL ????? - see IBM Java access stuff
• provide students/colleagues with feedback (using document management tags for check-out and markup for <del> and <ins> - supported only by IE4 and later???)
• use sound on a page
• handle 'printed' materials distributed on the web (and PDFs)

And from the IMS paper, guidelines for:

• Flexible Media Delivery of Text, Audio, Images, and Multimedia
• Developing Asynchronous Communication and Collaboration Tools
• Developing Synchronous Communication and Collaboration Tools
• Developing Accessible Interfaces and Interactive Environments
• Testing and Assessment
• Developing Accessible Authoring Tools
• Topic Specific Access

NOTE also

• instructions for using Dreamweaver 4 to produce accessible web sites
• instructions for using WebCT 3.6 in the most accessible way

Last updated: 8 March 2002