Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Overview of Maximum Accessibility

Why Are So Many Sites Inaccessible?

We believe there are two main reasons why so many Web sites are inaccessible. First, most Web developers don’t have disabilities themselves, and they may not know anyone who has a disability (or maybe they do but don’t realize it). So they may not fully understand how their design decisions and implementation techniques affect people with disabilities. Second, even if Web developers are aware of the problem and committed to fixing it, they may not know how to go about it. We hear the same questions again and again: Where should we start? What do we do?

We’ve written this book to answer those questions. We’ll try to tackle both sides of the accessibility challenge, to help ...