Building Accessible Websites (Book Review)
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Having read Building Accessible Websites by Joe Clark in the past it was more a book re-review, but plainly this is an industry staple for any designer or developer out there who wants to build the best product possible. It could have just as easily been named Building Quality Websites or How Not to Push a Crap Web Interface at the Unsuspecting Public. I’m sure he considered similar titles.
My interest in reading Building Accessible Websites this time pertained to the current transition from WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 1.0 toward WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation. Which means I’m coming to terms with each WCAG and how I’m going to deal with particular issues in my work, not only with regards to using (X)HTML and other W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) web standards but my overall approach towards multimedia. I think its by taking the best of Joe’s advice and WCAG 1.0, and by melding it towards our interpretation and acceptance of WCAG 2.0, that I’m going to find a path of best practice. Real world accessibility is as much about a philosophy of approach as it is about the methodology of deployment.
