Freebie time
Spotted at netdiver today, there’s a free download that you may find useful. It’s entitled Design for Web Accessibility 1.0, and is a standalone set of pages that explain some of the issues. It’s not exactly comprehensive, but you may still find it of use as an introduction and may like the fact that it’s packaged up in an executable. Ironically, it is not, in itself, accessible. Here’s what they have to say about it on download.com:
"This program teaches you how to html code for greater web accessibility by the disabled. It gives code examples for table headers, alt-tags, and other html elements. This is a totally free product, given to help people code for greater web accessibility. Note: Because this ebook is in its own viewer, it is NOT web accessible."
Note that this is not actually a new addition to download.com - it’s been there since March of last year, but is new to me.
Learn for free
Meanwhile, over at westciv.com they’re offering free courses in CSS2. They know a thing or two about the topic, having brought us the Style Master CSS editor, Layout Master web page editor and the ever informative site House Of Style. From their site:
"CSS Level 2 takes up where our very successful foundation course CSS Level 1 leaves off. Over the weeks you’ll get to know CSS at the highest level, with browser support, accessibility and usability as a constant. You get to see not just the CSS positioning properties, but also a number of different approaches to page layout with this important web standard."