Universal Design for Web Applications
Web Applications That Reach Everyone
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Release Date: November 2008
Pages: 198
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You'll discover how to use standards-based web technologies -- such as XHTML, CSS, and Ajax, along with video and Flash -- to develop applications for a wide range of users and a variety of devices, including the mobile Web. You'll also learn specifics about this target audience, especially the key over-50 age group, whose use of the Web is rapidly growing.
With this book, you will:
- Learn the importance of metadata and how it affects images, headings, and other design elements
- Build forms that accommodate cell phones, screen readers, word prediction, and more
- Create designs using color and text that are effective in a variety of situations
- Construct tables that present information without spatial cues
- Design Ajax-driven social networking applications that people with disabilities can access
- Provide audio with transcriptions and video that includes captions and audio descriptions
- Discover assistive technology support for Rich Internet Application technologies such as Flash, Flex, and Silverlight
Universal Design for Web Applications provides you with a roadmap to help you design easy-to-maintain web applications that benefit a larger audience.
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 Introducing Universal Design
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Accessible Design: A Story
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Putting Universal Design to Work
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Chapter 2 Selling It
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There Is No “Them”
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Audience Characteristics
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Growth Opportunity
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Legal Liability
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The Standards
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Professionalism
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Early and Often
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Summary
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Chapter 3 Metadata
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What Is Metadata?
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Images
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Keys to Writing Good Text Alternatives
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Summary
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Chapter 4 Structure and Design
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First Principles
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Headings
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Links
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Tables
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Lists
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Color
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CSS Highlights
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Flicker and Patterns
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Designing for Email
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Summary
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Chapter 5 Forms
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Labels
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fieldset and legend
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The accesskey Attribute
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Tab Order
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Error Handling
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CAPTCHA
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Summary
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Chapter 6 Tabular Data
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Data Table Basics
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Headings and Data
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Complex Data Tables
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Readability, Layout, and Design
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Summary
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Chapter 7 Video and Audio
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Web Video: The Early Years
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Accessibility in Video
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Transcripts and Text Alternatives
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Summary
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Chapter 8 Scripting
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Building on a Solid Foundation
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Summary
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Chapter 9 Ajax and WAI-ARIA
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Taking Stock of Existing Code
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Summary
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Chapter 10 Rich Internet Applications
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Features of RIAs
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User-Generated Content
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Testing Your Code
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Summary
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Chapter 11 The Process
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Universal by Design
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Appendix Cross-Reference for Universal Design for Web Applications
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