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Accessibility

Specifications and Guidelines

  1. Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0
  2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (Working Draft) is currently a tossers jolly in my opinion
  3. The WCAG Sumurai Errata offers superior advice at this point than the WCAG 2 verbosity
  4. PAS 78: a guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites

Screen Reader Emulator

  1. Fangs Screenreader Emulator Firefox Extension

Free Online Books

  1. Building Accessible Websites by Joe Clark

Videos and Presentations

  1. BBC Click and Accessibility (Part 1) from BBC.co.uk
  2. BBC Click Accessibility (Part 2) from BBC.co.uk
  3. Introduction to Screenreaders from Yahoo! Theater
  4. Introduction to Screen Magnifiers from Yahoo! Theater
  5. From the Mouth of a Screenreader from Yahoo! Theatre

Recommended Articles

  1. Inaccessible Label-Wrapped Form Inputs
  2. Prettier Accessible Forms
  3. Accessible HTML / XHTML Forms
  4. Screen Readers and display: none
  5. Provide an accessible alternative if you must use a CAPTCHA
  6. AJAX and Screen Readers - Content Access Issues
  7. PDF Accessiblity
  8. Four Levels of PDF Accessibility

Sites

  1. Gez Lemon’s Juicy Studio
  2. John Allsopp’s dog or higher
  3. Derek Featherstone’s Box of chocolates
  4. Patrick Lauke’s splintered
  5. Joe Clark’s fawny.org
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Currently Reading

Information and Data Modelling (Second Edition) by David Benyon (Cover)With an eye toward implementing another web interface database solution from the ground up I'm casually revisiting David Benyon's Information and Data Modelling (Second Edition). Its critical to have a solid understanding of conceptual data modelling and knowing how to identify various things like fan traps and three way traps very early in the process. To that end, while its fine to have a basic understanding of third normal form and general ideas about relations (that which relational databases rely on), its also a great idea to spend time exploring the theory and case studies that lead to a higher understanding.

Often people I deal with just snuff their nose and say they can design a database - but often its a very naive approach. Having read this book about four years ago its time for a quick refresher over my holiday period. No, I doubt few will envy me.