Design and build accessible websites

In this section you will find useful advice on designing and building your website, with accessibility tips for the following areas:

• Cascading Style Sheets - basic advice, layout and positioning, text and colour and advanced techniques
• Colour - how to use colour as a visual aid and choose colour contrast combination
• Images - alt text, animated images, maps and images of text
• Multimedia - audio, video, Flash and PDF documents
• Navigation - advice on access keys and links, help pages, hidden navigation and tabindex, new windows and page titles
• Scripts and forms - dynamics menus and JavaScript, forms, timeouts and page refreshes
• Text - Acronyms, abbreviations and ASCII text, font size, text only sites and sitemaps, language and writing for the web
• Structure - how to structure web pages, when to use Cascading Style Sheets, frames and layout tables, defining doc types and metadata, using data tables