[A34] - Listen to a web site: how to make web site accessible to people with visual disabilities
Nicoletta Diblas, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marco Speroni, Universitý della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

Workshop: [A34] - Listen to a web site: how to make web site accessible to people with visual disabilities

Participants will get from the tutorial:

-Understanding (at basic level) accessibility issues for web sites

-Understanding (at basic level) WED, an advanced methodology for designing accessible web site

-A direct experience for adapting an existing web site for accessibility

Outline of the Tutorial

TIME (h.min)

0.0-0.15 Introduction: The motivations are given and the workshop is organized

0.15-0.45 Accessibility: The problem of accessibility: demo of screen readers

0.45-1.15 W3C Accessibility Guidelines: Accessibility standard of W3C

1.15-1.45 Beyond W3C Guidelines: Why the W3C standard does not solve the problem

1.45-2.15 WED in a nutshell: A brief overview of WED- WEb as Dialogue methodology

2.15-2.45 Content Pages Accessibility: How to make effectively accessible a content intensive page

2.45-3.15 Index Pages Accessibility: How to make effectively accessible index pages

3.15-3.45 Going back: How to improve ?go back? navigation in a web site

3.45-4.00 Wrap-up: Questions & Answers and Comments

This conference is one of the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIMs) held every two years since 1991. See http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/ichim.html for further details, and past Proceedings.