September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 35m
English
We conclude this book with an overview of XForms features that ensure that Web applications are accessible to users with different needs and abilities. This chapter has been held back until the end because accessibility is a key design feature that is built in to all aspects of the XForms architecture. This means that XForms applications are designed for accessibility. Where previous Web standards required a large set of authoring guidelines that enumerated HTML design idioms that would either help or hinder accessibility, the XForms author is assured of meeting a large set of accessibility needs by creating Web applications the XForms way.
This chapter will start by enumerating ...