Web Accessibility:
HTML and CSS Resources
HTML
and CSS Resources:
The following eight resource listings
are arranged alphabetically.
- Accessible
Web Authoring Resources and Education Center (http://aware.hwg.org)
The HTML Writer's
Guild AWARE center has the mission of serving as a central resource for web
authors for learning about web accessibility.
- A-Prompt interactive authoring
tool for accessible documents
The A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) project is designed to make the Internet
more accessible by promptingHTML
authors to write better documents. By checking Web pages for barriers to accessibility
and making repairs to correct any problems, A-Prompt will ensure that you
are reaching the widest possible audience. It is a joint collaboration between
The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University Of Toronto and The
Trace Centre at the University Of Wisconsin.
- Building Web Sites for the Blind:
A Primer
University of Northern Colorado's Nate Lowell and Stephanie Powell share
lessons learned from building web sites for a Masters program in Blindness
and Visual Impairment. Has great examples of CSS
and the rationale
on using them.
- Dave Raggett's Guide to HTML
(http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide)
Offers "Getting Started with HTML",
"More advanced features",
and "Adding a Little Style, a short guide to styling your Web pages."
It will show you how to use W3C
's Cascading Style Sheets language (CSS
) as well as alternatives using HTML
itself.
- Glassdog's
Design-o-rama (http://www.glassdog.com/design-o-rama/index.shtml)
Glassdog offers tutorials on HTML,
CSS , JAVA scripts and even
features DESIGN - O - RAMA TO GO ! where you can now download all the documents
in self-extracting plain text (.TXT) or MSWord (.DOC) format. Take a look
at their source code to see some fine coding!
- "House
of Style" CSS Tutorials
(http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/tutorials/index.html)
The House of Style has several cascading style sheets tutorials, with explanations,
exercises and worked examples to get you up and running with style sheets
as quickly as possible. Also offer the CSS
Cookbook and the CSS
Gallery.
-
HTMLTips
and Tricks for Accessibility - Microsoft Word (.doc) version
also available in Rich Text Format (.RTF) version.
A listing of HTML workarounds
for increasing the accessibility of your web page. Coding examples show
how to use TITLE to further explain your hyperlinks (great for rollovers),
how to include a doctype statement, how make your tables more accessible
and the basic elements that make a website more accessible.
-
HTMLHelp
(http://www.htmlhelp.org)
The Web Design Group (WDG) offers material on a wide range of HTML
related topics. Includes an excellent reference guide to HTML
4.0 elements and their usage, an HTML
validator, a link checker, and a CSS
check.
-
TIDY
(http://www.w3org/people/Raggett/tidy)
Dave Raggett's HTML
TIDY is a free downloadable utility offering a simple way to fix HTML
mistakes automatically and tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out
markup. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated
by specialized HTML
editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to
pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with
disabilities.
- W3C
Cascading Style Sheets CSS
Tutorial (http://www.w3c.org/Style/CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS )
is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web
documents. Also offers a Web style sheets resource page.
- W3C
Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS ) validator
(http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/)
The W3C CSS
Validator version 2.0 This is a CSS
validator for Cascading Style Sheets, level 2. You can download
it, or run it from this page. The main
W3C CSS page
has excellent resources for learning and using CSS.
-
W3C HTML
validator (http://validator.w3.org/)
The W3C
HTML Validation Service checks HTML
documents for conformance to W3C
HTML and
XHTML HTML
standards. Enter the URL
of your page, or upload pages from your computer.
- WebAIM (http://www.webaim.org)
Web Accessibility In Mind is the Web Accessibility "How-To" Site. Excellent
resources including
"Creating Accessible
Tables " and "Creating
Accessible Forms ."
- WebReview.com's
Style Sheet Reference Guide (http://www.webreview.com)
This reference page will tell you what browsers support what CSS
functions. It includes CSS
1 Support Chart, CSS 2
Selector Support Chart, CSS
FAQ page, and a glossary.
