Web Accessibility: Why and How?

By Laurie-Anne Bourdain

Table of Content

• Abstract
• Table of Contents
  1. List of Figures
  2. List of Tables
• List of Acronyms and Abreviations
• Chapter I - Introduction
  1. Aims of the Dissertation
  2. Structure of the Dissertation
  3. Methodology
• Chapter II - Web Accessibility
  1. Myths and Misunderstandings
     1. Web Accessibility Knowledge Study
     2. Study Results
     3. Study Conclusions
  2. What is Web Accessibility?
• Chapter III - Why Implementing it?
  1. What the Law Says
  2. Benefits for the People
  3. Benefits for the Company
• Chapter IV - Whom For?
  1. Disabled and Disability
     1. Visual Disability
     2. Auditory Impairment
     3. Learning Disability
     4. Physical and Neural Disability
     5. Hardware and Software Disability?
  2. Can Accessibility be Profitable to Non Disabled?
     1. Robots and Search Engines
     2. Age is also a Disability...
     3. What about the Rest of the World?
• Chapter V - Accessible Content
  1. How do User Read on the Internet
     1. "F for Fast...
     2. Users are Blind to Advertisement
  2. Writing for the Web
     1. A few Basic Principles
     2. Write Less
     3. Write Simple
     4. Ortograf Altêrnativ
  3. Non Textual Content
     1. Images
     2. Audio Content
     3. Video Content
• Chapter VI - How To?
  1. Understanding the Disability
  2. Accessibility Implementation Approach
     1. Graceful Degradation
     2. Progressive Enhancement
  3. Page Structure
     1. HTML and XHTML
     2. Standards and W3C
     3. Semantics
  4. Page Design
     1. Colours
     2. JavaScript
     3. Tables
     4. Forms
     5. Flash
• Chapter VII - A Few Questions
  1. Accessibility and Security, the Case of CAPTCHA
  2. Accesskeys
  3. Accessibility and Advertisement
  4. Too Much Accessibility Kills the Accessibility
• Chapter VIII - Accessibility Testing
• Conclusion
• Appendixes
  1. A1. Web Accessibility Survey
  2. A2. Checklist of Checkpoints for WCAG 1.0
  3. A3. Opquast Project Evaluation
• References and Bibliography
• Contact
• Copyrights Information

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