Universal Design - Building web applications for everyone

Wendy Chisholm, Matt May

O'Reilly

2008

208 páginas

6h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780596518738

There are not a great many books on the topic of web accessibility, and even fewer that that could be described as quick reference, so I was really pleased with my first scan through Universal Design to discover that we now have a book that is, somewhat ironically, a very accessible reference. Accessible - and understandable - to a wide variety of readers, too.

It's not so surprise to learn that many people find the idea of reading long and unwieldy technical specification documents right up there with the desire to take flying lessons with John Denver. It's just no fun and destined to fail. With this book, a developer or management type can get to grips both with the basics of accessibility - which are mostly unchanged since the first set of accessibility guidelines, WCAG 1, were completed - but also get up to speed with the new and emerging techniques, including AJAX and learn about the new WAI- ARIA suite. It really is a lot easier to pick up and digest that scoring the online documentation.