Accessibility

General concepts and techniques
Why make your site accessible?
Analysis: what makes a site inaccessible?
Up to date standards and technologies
Browser and platform compatibility

Legal issues
Case studies
Legal requirements

Coding for accessibility
Developer tools
Doctypes: XHTML v HTML
Deprecated elements
Writing efficient and meaningful HTML

Building pages with CSS
Separating content from presentation
The cascade, inheritance, specifity
Fonts, colours and other properties
Non-tabled page layouts
Using lists for navigation
Columns and other layout techniques
Styles for print

Navigation
Clear navigation structures
Link titles - identifying link content
Specifying keyboard shortcuts for links
Using the tab key for navigation
Adding a Skip Navigation option
Building a Site Map

Validation
WAI guidelines
UK Government guidelines
Bobby, Web Exact and other resources
Manual checks Accessibility checklist

Assistive technologies
Screen readers
Braille displays

Text
Specifying language and encoding
Scalability ensuring readable text
Acronyms and abbreviations

Images
Alt tags providing alternative content
Using background images text replacement
Animated gifs

Tables
Using headers and titles for data tables
When to avoid tables

Forms
Associating labels with form elements
Building in keyboard access for forms

Accessible design
Building for usability
Fluid vs fixed design allowing for scalability
Colour schemes contrasting colours
Using alternatives to colour for mark-up

Multimedia & scripting
Working with Flash, video or audio content providing alternatives
Issues with JavaScript and other browser scripting languages
Mouse events providing keyboard based alternatives