Building accessible websites for people living with a disability

Building a site accessible to those with physical disabilities (visual, motor ou cognitive) results in the end into a better site for all.

Content

• Web accessibility: difficulties and benefits
• Link between Web standards and accessibility
• Web accessibility standards: section 508, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and the three conformance levels, SQQRI008-001 for Québec government agencies
• Techniques to make the site accessible: text, images, colors, stylesheets, navigation, tables and forms
• Use of the tabindex and accesskey attributes
• Fixing a Web page to make it compliant to section 508 and WCAG level double-A
• Manually verifying the accessibility of a site
• Online tools to assess the accessibility of a Web site