Building Accessible Websites (VOICES) by Joe Clark

by Joe Clark

Building Accessible Websites teaches how and why to use Web accessibility techniques, with an emphasis on phased accessibility that scales to the needs of small, medium, and large budgets. Whether you're an individual developer running a hobby site or the head of a large corporate Web team, Building Accessible Websites shows you affordable, technically manageable ways to make a Website accessible to people with disabilities.

Genres: Nonfiction

Mass Market Paperback

First published October 11, 2002

Reviews

[Craig Cecil · Rating 1 out of 5]

Written in 2002, this book is still considered the gold standard in web accessibility. I have no idea why. What Joe Clark has accomplished here is to spread about 20 pages of good accessibility information across a 400 page miasma. Most web designers don't care about the history of captioning and transcription systems--we just want the facts, man. What should we do, and what should we avoid. Best practices. Etc. That info is in here, but you have to cut a swath through the verbosity to find much of it. Or just read the last page of each chapter, which summarizes the previous 40-odd pages in six or less sentences. Save yourself the price of the book and scan through the entire text of the book online. In the end, Building Accessible Websites is an inaccessible read.

[Miguel Frias · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book covers several useful topics related to accessibility but in a very tedious way.

Summary:
- Use alt and title in all media elements like img, object, applet (does anyone still use it?), or any other thing, including inputs.
- Use HTML property: accesskey.
- Use HTML property: accesstab

[Murray · Rating 3 out of 5]

A seminal book on promoting standards and accessibility in websites. Written in a somewhat caustic tone, but gets its points across with good examples and rebuttals to common excuses for practices that make the web hard for many to use.