While not exactly light reading, WCAG 2.0 is good starting point. The overview page also contains a link to an "at a glance" version.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php - Justin On 2012-06-18, at 10:46 AM, Cheetham, Anastasia wrote: > > We are beginning an effort to revamp our documentation on how to create > accessible web sites. We have a number of pages on our wiki related to this; > We want to clean them up, update them, etc. > > A key part of this effort will be identifying and referencing some of the > great resources that are already available on the web. We're calling on the > knowledge and experience of the community, and asking: What's your favourite > resource for how to create accessible web sites? > > One example would be the DHTML Style Guide Working Group's recommendations > for keyboard shortcuts to be used in website widgets: > http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide > > What other resources do you know of? What do you recommend to people? What > are your favourite tutorials, references, guidelines, etc.? We're looking > for practical techniques that developers can incorporate into their mindset > and workflow. > > If you have suggestions or comments, please contribute to this thread on the > mailing list. We'll be compiling the recommendations, filling in gaps and > creating what we hope will be a useful starting point that can lead people to > everything they need to know to create accessible websites. > > > -- > Anastasia Cheetham Inclusive Design Research Centre > [email protected] Inclusive Design Institute > OCAD University > > _______________________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, > see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
