Accessibility, accessibility, accessibility!!!!!

Categories: Development Created by ben van 't ende (netcreators)
Well we have had our fair share of dudes at TYCON who taught us how to behave while building the net and make everybody happy doing that. It is time to put things into practice, but what are we without any tools? From the guys that built www.greenpeace.de come two accessibility tools you WANT to use.

Andreas Schwarzkopf will publish some more improvements in the next weeks, e.g. accessible xhtml tip a friend and other small things.

1) Accessibility glossary - a21glossary
All occurances of acronyms, abbreviations, definitions and foreign words wich are stored in glossary records will be automatically replaced on the whole site with the explanatory markup. Also a glossary list plugin is availible, the replaced terms on the site can be linked to the appropriate glossary entry or to another information source. The glossary is mutlilingual and extendable, so if you want to use other HTML elements like q, blockquote, del, ins or whatever, you can do that.

2) CSS styled Multimedia - css_styled_multimedia
Standard compliant and accessible multimedia content element as addon to the css_styled_content extension. It validates against XHTML 1.0 strict and can be used with all modern browsers. Aternative content can be defiend, e.g. an image or a textual description of a flash or video film. Special field is added, wich is used to define application parameters, e.g. to submit parameters to a flash application.

The links to the extensions are:
extensions.typo3.org/extension/a21glossary
extensions.typo3.org/extension/css_styled_multimedia