A
Accessibility API Mapping standards 90
accessible design, definition 5
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) 73
access keys 100
affordances 52
alerts 70
alphabets and characters 33
alphanumeric acronyms 17
a11y 17
i18n 17
alternative styles 111–112
alt text 79–81
Alzheimer’s Society 58
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) 33
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 139
Anne Gibson 39
AOL 30
ARIA or WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications) 116
role (role=) 117
when to use it 120
assistive technologies 10, 16–17, 31
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 146
B
BBC News 35
BBDO 30
Bluetooth 14
Bmibaby Limited 140
Body Shop 77
braille 11
British Dyslexia Association 26
broadband 31
C
cerebral palsy (CP) 18
character encoding 33
character sets 33
closed captions 85
Coady, Geri 76
cognitive walkthroughs 122
colonial design 9
color 75
as information 77
contrast 75
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) 142
conventions 52–53
Cox, Simon 80
Coyier, Chris 81
Cruse, Dale 8
CSS styling 108–109
D
defining disability 19
devices
sharing 37
Discourse 71
diversity 9
document landmarks 118
E
empathy 8
environmental factors 28–36
browsers 29
connectivity 31
devices 30–31
languages 32–35
Equality Act 139
error messages 72
European Accessibility Act 142
Europe’s International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 33
F
fallbacks 113
Faulkner, Steve 118
Federal Register 141
Feldman, Matt 141
findability 93–94
focus styles 103
Fothergill, Sam 140
G
Gibson, Anne 125
Google Translate 32
graceful degradation 113
graphs and infographics 81
H
Hall, Erika 43
headings 94
Head, Val 28
Hendren, Sara 51
Henry, Shawn 45
heuristic evaluations 122
Horton, Sarah 43
hover styles 103
HTML 90–91
unstyled 91
HTML4 104
HTML5.2 118
I
impairments
age-related 9
auditory 23–24
cognitive 25–27
motor 24
visual 21–23
inclusion 3
inputs 96
pairs 98
interaction design 69–74
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) 30
Internet Movie Database (IMDb) 62
internet speed 31
J
Job Access With Speech (JAWS) 10, 26
K
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) 32
keyboard focus 102
keyboard navigation 11, 99–106
Kickstarter 71
Kloots, Todd 123
KompoZer 107
Krug, Steve 55
L
labels 96–97
pairs 98
learning disabilities 26
dyslexia 26
literacy 27
legal landscape 139
Lembree, Dennis 113
links 58–60
link language 61
lists 95
live regions 119
localization 32
M
Mace, Ronald L. 5
meaningful HTML 110–111
Meyer, Eric 37
Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence 30
motion sensitivity 28
N
National Federation of the Blind (NFB) 139
NaturalReader 26
navigation and wayfinding 54–59
navigation bar 54
navigation hardware 13–14
eye trackers 14
switch inputs 13
New Republic 8
P
PDFs 82
Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust (POUR) 143
Pickering, Heydon 118
policies 48
production and development 47
testing on devices 47
progressive enhancement 113–116
project budget 42–43
project scope 41–43
Q
Quesenbery, Whitney 43
R
reading direction 34
research 43–46
analysis 46
interacting with participants 45–46
recruiting people with disabilities 44–45
rich media 79–88
rich web applications 70
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) 140
RSS readers 112
Rutter, Richard 66
S
Santa Maria, Jason 66
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 81
screen magnifiers 14–16
Linux Screen Reader (LSR) 10
Narrator 10
NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) 10
Orca 10
Window-Eyes 10
search engines 93
seizures 27–29
triggers 28
Simmons, Jen 8
space and context 36–37
speech recognition 14
Cortana 14
Google Assistant 14
Siri 14
structure 90
subtitles and captions 85–87
auto-captioning 85
Swan, Henny 40
Symbolset 68
T
tabindex 104
Target 139
testing 122
device and browser 123–127
ongoing
suites 124
virtual machines 125
text in images 81
The New York Times 7
TinyMCE 111
titles and breadcrumbs 58
training 40
transcripts 83
clean verbatim vs. true verbatim 85
translation 32
typography 65–69
U
UK Post Office 49
United Nations 55
universal design 5–7
usability testing 131–135
finding participants 132–133
running tests 134
target audience 133
US Rehabilitation Act of 1973 141
Section 508 141
V
validators and checkers 127–130
vestibular disorder 27–29
Vinkle, Scott 105
visual focus 102
VoiceOver 10
W
W3C 128
Web Accessibility Initiative 138
Wachter-Boettcher, Sara 37
web accessibility, definition 3
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) 143
WebAIM’s WAVE 129
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 49, 123, 143
conformance levels 144–145
principles 143–144
webfonts 34
Web Video Text Track (WebVTT) 87
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) 107–108
Wikipedia 92
writing 62–65
hierarchy and structure 62
plain language 64
Y
YouTube 85