Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites: Problem - Design - Solution

Jon Duckett

John Wiley & Sons, Jul 17, 2007 - Computers - 480 pages

• Shows Web developers how to make the transition from HTML to XHTML, an XML-based reformulation of HTML that offers greater design flexibility
• Demonstrates how to work with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)-now supported by ninety percent of browsers and integral to new site-building tools from Macromedia and others-and implement a consistent style throughout and entire site
• Explains how to make a site accessible to people with impaired vision, limited hand use, dyslexia, and other issues-now a legal requirement for many sites in the U.S. and the U.K.

Contents

• Introducing the Site: 1
• Moving from HTML to XHTML: 39
• Contents: 67
• Using CSS to Style Documents: 87
• Contents: 97
• Adding More Style with CSS: 159
• Solution: 189
• Using CSS for Layout: 195
• Understanding Accessibility: 243
• Creating Accessible Tables and Forms and Testing Your Site: 285
• Looking to the Future: 325
• Final Example Code: 357
• XHTML Element Reference: 371
• center Deprecated all: 378
• hn all: 384
• input typereset all: 390
• CSS Properties: 407
• Escape Characters: 433
• Index: 441

About the author

Jon Duckett published his first Web site in 1996 while studying for a BSc (Hons) in psychology at Brunel University, London. Since then he has helped create a wide variety of Web sites and has coauthored more than ten programming-related books on topics from ASP to XML (via many other letters of the alphabet) that have covered diverse aspects of Web programming, including design, architecture, and coding.
After graduating, Jon worked for Wrox Press, first in their Birmingham (U.K.) offices for three years and then in Sydney (Australia) for another year. He is now a freelance developer and consultant based in a leafy suburb of London, working for a range of clients spread across three continents.
When not stuck in front of a computer screen, Jon enjoys writing and listening to music.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites: Problem - Design - Solution
• Author: Jon Duckett
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2007
• ISBN: 0470231076, 9780470231074
• Length: 480 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Internet / General; Computers / Internet / Web Design