You will discover how to use standards-based web technologies, such as XHTML, CSS, and Ajax, along with video and Flash - to develop applications for a wide range of users and a variety of devices, including the mobile Web. You will also learn specifics about this target audience, especially the key over-50 age group, whose use of the Web is rapidly growing.
With this book, you will:
- Learn the importance of metadata and how it affects images, headings, and other design elements;
- Build forms that accommodate cell phones, screen readers, word prediction, and more;
- Create designs using color & text that are effective in a variety of situations;
- Construct tables that present information without spatial cues;
- Design Ajax-driven social networking applications that people with disabilities can access;
- Provide audio with transcriptions and video that includes captions & audio descriptions;
- Discover assistive technology support for Rich Internet Application technologies such as Flash, Flex, and Silverlight;
- Universal Design for Web Applications provides you with a roadmap to help you design easy-to-maintain web applications that benefit a larger audience.