Designing Universally Accessible Web Resources with HTML and CSS

Overview

Designing Universally Accessible Web Resources with HTML and CSS:

Seperating strucutre from content
Using HTML structural elements
Using style sheets for graphical formatting
Using style to create dynamic web effects
Browser compatibility isssues
Design and redesign examples

This workshop is for web developers who are familar with HTML markup and would like to learn more about the capabilities of HTML markup and Cascading Style Sheets to create web resources that are easier to maintain, highly accessible to people with disabilities and compatible with emerging web browsing technologies being integrated into cell phones and PDAs. The workshop will provide a hands on experience for web developers to create and test CSS example web resources using HTML strucutre and style sheets. Participants will receive a CD-ROM that includes the workshop presentation materials, design examples and demonstration software for supporting the creation of accessible web resources. Participants are encouraged to bring their own design questions and problems for discussion in the workshop.

Location and Times

Date: February 14th, 2003

Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm

Location: Harper Community College, Palatine, IL (Directions)

Building: Business and Social Science Center (Campus Map)

Room: I225

Agenda

Link to Presentation

Starts at 10:00am

Part 1: HTML Structure

Section headers
Navigation bars
Lists
Form labels
Data table headers
Validating HTML
Keyboard commands

Part 2: CSS Styling

Applying styles to web resources
Text styling
List styling
Border styling
Positioning techniques

60 minute Break for Lunch

Part 3: Dynamic CSS techniques

Creating hover effects
Styling links
Dynamic content
Browser compatibility issues

Part 4: Putting it all together design examples

Departmental home page
Web application
Additional resources

ends at 3:00pm

Contacts

If have an questions or comments please contact the Presentor or one of the local hosts:

Presentor: Jon Gunderson (Universify of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign)

Local hosts: Tom Thompson and Sarah Stark (Harper Community College)

Presentor

Jon Gunderson is currently the Coordinator of information technology accessibility for people with disabilities at UIUC in the Division of Rehabilitation Education Services. He has been working in the area of web accessibility for over 6 years and is chair of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative User Agent Accessibility Guidelines working group. He has given numerous presentations and has taught several courses on designing universally accessible web resources.

Find out more about web accessibility at the CITA website

Registration

Please contact Fran Hendrickson to register for the workshop at:
Email:fhendric@harpercollege.edu
Phone: (847) 925-6586