Building Accessible Web Sites

Using a strategic approach to the issues in a journalistic style, this book will be a foundation for how people think about this issue going forward-the first book people would read on the topic, before delving into the minutiae of the moment. With lawsuits and human-rights complaints proliferating, and with simple awareness of accessibility percolating through the industry, soon it will be hard to find a web shop that won't be producing accessible sites, whether it presently has the experience and know-how or not. Government mandates, lawsuits from disability groups, more non-English speaking web users, and an increasing population of Web-enabled devices make this a vital topic. Author Joe Clark is a seasoned writer, editor, and columnist, whose articles appear in three dozen periodicals, from Popular Science and Technology Review to Details, Entertainment Weekly, and the Economist. Over a ten-year period he has covered the Internet and other beats including graphic/industrial design, pop music, social issues in sports, science and technology, as well as disability issues. With more than 20 years' experience in the disability field, Joe is an expert on multimedia access, particularly captioning and audio description. He founded and administered the Media Access mailing list since 1995. He has programmed, written, and designed Web sites since 1995 including joeclark, fawny, and contenu.nu. He is a regular contributor to leading developer mailing lists, including Webdesign-L and CHI-Web.