osCommerce and Accessibility
This eBook gives a broad overview of what Accessibility means to you as a Store Owner, and to your clients!
It also includes where osCommerce fails in this respect, and how to make osCommerce accessible.
Who's this book for?
Everyone who is concerned that their website is not accessible - with fines of upto £5000 you should be concerned! Please note that the use of information given in this eBook is not a replacement for a full accessibility audit and site rework by a website accessibility professional.
What will you learn?
Why make your store accessible?
- The Business Case
- The Legal Case
- The Moral Case
- WAI Language
Using Images
- Textual Equivalents
- Images of Text
- Product Pictures
Semantic HTML
- The Main Header
- Other Headers
- Other things to look at
Proper & Valid HTML
- The start of the Document
- Using External Resources
- Validating your HTML
- A few common HTML errors
Making Better Links
- Skip to Content
- Access Keys
- Forms
Presentation
- Resizable Text
- Fixed Widths
- Colour
- Use of JavaScript
- Popup Windows
- Be Consistent
Testing
- Browsers
- Tools
And more!
By the end of the book, you will have a greater understanding of the issues that affect a websites accessibility, but please note that the use of information given in this eBook is not a replacement for a full accessibility audit and site rework by a website accessibility professional.
