RE: Accessibility

cms-list wrote:
> Can anyone provide some pointers on making web content more
> accessible to 
> people with disabilities? 

I'd start by getting the 'disability' issue out of the accessibility issue.

When thinking of accessibility, it means making more content/functionality
more accessible to more people with more devices. By default, that will
include disability issues, but also plenty of other benefits.

> I checked out a few sites but they were
> pretty 
> vague and mostly talked about making the information available on
>  other media. Just real high level concepts for me to research in
> greater depth would be great. 

For high level concepts, here's some:

- graceful degradation 
- well structured markup
- semantic markup
- separation of style and content with CSS
- browser agnostic

This page is a great start for finding links:

http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/accessibility.ht
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-Darrel