The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you!
6. Why use accessible code?
- Allows your site to be accessible to a larger audience (vision impaired, motor skill impaired, cognitive impaired)
- Allows your site to be accessed by wider range of devices (hand helds, screen readers, text browsers, search engines)
- Is a requirement for Federal and State Government sites
How do you make your code accessible?
- Provide text equivalents for non-text elements
- Use accessible data tables (identify row and column headers)
- Use accessible forms (label for, id, fieldset, legend)
- Use markup rather than images to convey information.
- Provide visible skip menus
- Provide access keys
- Use style sheets with relative units to control layout and presentation
- Make sure documents can be read without style sheets
- Provide metadata to add semantic information