Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility

Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES)

University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

CITES/DRES Accessibility Features

The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign is using a best practices model for improving the accessibility of web resources. The following is the summary of features for html best practices.

Selected Browser Accessibility Features

Keyboard Features Useful to People with Disabilities

Feature	Internet Explorer	Mozilla/Firefox	Mozilla/Firefox with Accessibility Extension	Opera	Safari
Link Navigation	TAB and Shift-TAB	TAB and Shift-TAB	A and Q	A and Q	???
Form Control Navigation	TAB and Shift-TAB	TAB and Shift-TAB	TAB and Shift-TAB	TAB and Shift-TAB	???
Header Navigation	none	none	W and S	W and S	none
Header Navigation	none	none	W and S	W and S	none
Menu Navigation	none	none	E and D	none	none
Toggle Images	none	none	none	G	none
User Style Sheet	none	none	none	Control+G	none

Summary of html Best Practices

Navigation Features

• Unique title on each web page using title and h1 element
• Headers (H2-H6) used to indicate major sections of the web resources
• All form controls have associated text label elements
• Data tables use caption, th, id attributes, header attributes to indicate headers for data cells
• Link text indicates the target of link
• Unordered lists (ul) with title attribute to indicate navigation bars
• Accesskeys
  • Accesskey 1: Main content
  • Accesskey 2: Search
  • Accesskey 3: Navigation bar

Images and Graphics

• Decorative images are included as background images
• Informative images have alt text

Styling

• Use CSS for styling text
• Use CSS for layout and positioning content

Automation

• No new windows opened without notification of user through link text
• All functions available trhough the keyboard

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• Accesskey 1: Main Content