Earlier this week I gave a presentation about Web Standards and Accessibility to the ASIS&T Wayne State Student Chapter.

I gave the presentation as an overview of the importance of web standards and accessibility. Not only as the right thing to do but also how they can benefit any web project. Not only is there a cost savings to having and using standards but there is also a search engine benefit and overall your users will be happier.

Unfortunately the real world execution is not so cut and dry. Scope, time constraints and lack of communication effect the end result of both standards and accessibility. The key is communication, letting everyone know what the standards are and if there is an addition. Making standards and accessibility a habit and baking it into every piece of work you do will make it that much easier to execute on a consistent basis.

Presentation Video

Presentation Slides

Resources

• Opera Web Standards Curriculum
• The W3C Markup Validation Service
• Section 508: The Road to Accessibility
• jQuery: The Write Less, Do More JavaScript Library
• My DebugBar | IETester
• Cynthia Says – Accessibility Tester
• Web Development Tools – What’s in your web toolbelt?
• Understanding Web Accessibility Obstacles

Last but not least

!important is not your friend, please stop using it.

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