Accessible Web Design Articles and Guides
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An example - University Accessible Web Design Project Plan. Jim Byrne, February 2004.
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Web accessibility and the law in the UK: Is your website legal? by Trenton Moss 23 March 2004.
The Turbo-charged style-sheet switcher: Providing user customisation options by making css files scriptable.
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How to make non-text elements accessible - some notes by Jim Byrne (1st May 2003)
Accessible web text - sizing up the issues., in part 2 of this introduction to accessible web text explores the tricky issue of size. An article by Jim Byrne. (18th March 2003)
Making Websites Accessible, is a non-technical guide to planning, building and maintaining an accessible website, by Jim Byrne. (13th Feb. 2003).
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Understanding web typography - an introduction by Jim Byrne (now and ebook published by ScotConnect).
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Sarah Smith introduces the new Making Websites Accessible guide published The Scottish Accessible Information Forum. (10th Dec. 2002)
The W3C Accessibility Guidelines: developing an approach by Jim Byrne and Pat Byrne. (11th October 2002).
What is an accessible website? If we know what an accessible website is, we have a better chance of building one. An article by Jim Byrne and Pat Byrne (23rd September 2002.)
Internet Glossary of Terms by Pat Byrne. (13th August 2002).
Accessibility of PDF documents -some notes, by Jim Byrne. (12th Aug. 2002)
Accessibility and frames - some notes by Jim Byrne. (24th July 2002).
HTML - looking down at it from a very great height.: short notes on understand HTML. Written by Jim Byrne. (11th June 2002)
CSS accessibility problems: is markup dead?: Why it is a bad idea to use cascading style sheets to mimic the effects of proper HTML markup. An article by Jim Byrne. (14th May 2002)
E-Learning and Legislation by Martin Sloan. A discussion of e-learning techniques, accessibility issues and relevant UK legislation. (20th March 2002)
Also by Martin Sloan: Institutional Web sites and Legislation (20th March 2002)
Table Manners. A discussion of Cascading Style Sheets versus HTML tables for layout, and a guide to building accessible layout and data tables. An article by Jim Byrne. (29th January 2002)
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Benefits and Challenges of Web Accessibility A very useful article by Pat Byrne - does exactly what it says in the title. (30th October 2001)
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Are disabled students set to lose out in the digital revolution? I think so - what are we going to do about it? (Jim Byrne, 2nd July 2001)
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This HTML Kills: Thoughts on web accessibility. An article published on the Website A List Apart Jim Byrne
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Deafblind access to the Web by James Gallagher
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Guidelines for Building an Accessible Web Site Helping you to create a web site that is accessible to everyone - this document will never be finished - I will update it as often as I can. (Jim Byrne, started January 2000)
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The Internet and Disabled People - Access Denied? More thoughts about Web accessibility. (Jim Byrne)
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Planning a Website Guidelines for organisations planning to put up a Website (Jim Byrne, Updated Jan. 2000)
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The Internet: Check in, out, and shake it all about! A very old artilce I wrote for the Scottish Accessible Information Forum Newsletter. (Jim Byrne)
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Applying for a Grant Notes I have taken from various books about how to apply for a Grant. (Jim Byrne)
- Why do you need to go online? Extremely old article I wrote when trying to get funds to start up the Making Connections. (Jim Byrne, 1995)
General Internet Tutorials
- An Introduction to the Internet and World Wide Web (Jim Byrne 2000?)
- An introduction to using e-mail (Jim Byrne 1998?)
Slides from talks I have done
You might find these useful because they contain statistics about numbers of disabled people in the UK, growth of the Internet etc. Most of these page are still located on the old site.
Accessible Web Design? Who Cares? - notes from a seminar I spoke at - part of the 'Innovative Learning & Teaching Lunchtime Seminar Series' (here at Glasgow Caledonian University). (15th November 2001)
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