Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Plug and Play? Not Yet

In the previous chapter, we discovered ways in which multimedia content can be rendered most accessibly. This chapter explores in greater detail the tools that create and render that content. Scripts, applets, and plug-ins are some of the most powerful tools available to Web authors who wish to add a high level of interactivity and variety to the content they offer on their Web pages. Use of sophisticated interactive tools can greatly increase the functionality of Web pages but too often results in content that is inaccessible. It need not be so. As the need for universal access has become more widely understood and accepted, cooperative efforts have emerged for the purpose of creating cross-browser accessibility solutions ...