Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses don’t always have the financial resources to revamp their whole website to implement WCAG 2.0 Level AA standards. Compliance can take a fair amount of knowledge and effort however there are things that you can do on a day-to-day basis to improve the accessibility of your website. The crazy thing is, most if…
Below are examples of a WCAG 2.0 compliant simple and a complex HTML table. Don’t forget to replace the table Caption and Summary. Simple Tables (skip to Complex Table) Here is sample source code for creating a Simple HTML table. [noindex] Sample of Table Caption Header 1 Header 2 example cell example cell example cell…
The WCAG 2.0 brings with it many recommendations which are not only necessary for accessibility but much overdue when it comes to SEO. Most people don’t realize that search engines are actually blind. As such, they can’t see photos, can’t conceptualize page layouts, can’t see colour indicators… oh and did I mention they were deaf…
Multilingual Website If your website had content in more than one language, be sure to identify the default language of the page using the HTML tag itself. For example, if your page is in XHTML, you would use: <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”fr” lang=”fr”> If you are working in HTML5, you can drop the xmlns and xml:lang…
The following is a list of free web development tools and resources to help you ensure accessibility on your website, regardless of whether or not you decide to take compliance all the way to WCAG 2.0, Section 508 or your countries favourite flavour of the WCAG guidelines. If you are not going to make your website friendly…
Over the past few years, the issue of accessibility on the web has been heating up. Companies all around the world are being sued because their website is not accessible to everyone. In 2009, the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is the main international standards organization for the web, published the second version of…