Re: simple, accessible html

You're welcome to use the course I prepared, Kristopher:

http://trevor.butler.edu/~tmccain/access

I made it precisely because the WAI guidelines are rather thick for the
folks I help. Soon, I plan to revise the site because of things I have
learned in the past few months (it needs to be even simpler and more to
the point, I think), and it would be helpful to hear your (and your
students')  reaction to it. 

Hope that helps,

- tom




>A little knowledge can be dangerous.  I have a few of the basics down
>when it comes to making my pages accessible (i.e. always include ALT
>descriptions with images, use <STRONG> instead of <B>, etc.), and
>because of this, I've been asked to explain a little about accessibility
>to some web-design students. (These students, themselves, have physical
>disabilities, though as far as I know, none of them are blind.)
>
>I'm looking for a crash-course and/or a place on the Net where I can
>direct the students to help them learn more about creating
>web-accessible pages.  Basically, what they (I) would need is a
>straight-forward list of the tags and extra info required for html.  At
>this point, it isn't necessary to get into things like Java,
>stylesheets, imagemaps, forms, etc.
>
>I know many of you will direct me to the W3C site, but even that gets a
>little bogged down in terminology foreign to beginners.  Is there
>something simpler, a little more stripped down?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kris Walmsley
>k.walmsley@swipnet.se
>Institute on Independent Living
>http://www.independentliving.org
>
>



tom mcCain, Butler University, Indianapolis USA

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