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508 Gurus: I need suggestions on good 508/accessibility books.
October 14, 2008 8:46 AM   Subscribe

Our office is on the lookout for great books on 508/accessibility. Specifically books that dive into the technical details of how to resolve 508 issues, etc. Anything that also deals with .NET/508 would be a bonus. Any suggestions?
posted by pghjezebel to computers & internet (2 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
I haven't looked at the guidelines in ages. I could be wrong, but the guidelines are mostly to make your application compliant with screen readers for the blind. Unfortunately, these readers do not play well with JavaScript or any code other than basic HTML. I don't think you can have a .Net based application that is section 508 compliant.

Again, I could be wrong, and suggest contacting W3C directly to find out.
posted by xammerboy at 11:44 AM on October 14, 2008


.NET/Section 508 compliance is significantly better now than it was in the beginning. In some cases, you'll have to create a secondary widget/functionality or extend the code to present alternate language/links/buttons (that are hidden from sight in most browsers but read by an accessibility program) that can be displayed alternatively or in conjunction with the .Net widget - just as you do with other scripting languages. There still isn't a good book on .Net/508 (that I know of), so if the following links didn't work for me, I'd poke around on MSDN. The link I had bookmarked has disappeared. These MSDN search results are a poor substitute for the original link (which had it's own frustrations, but it had links to .net fixes for 508-related glitches)

When I was doing 508 compliance, I almost always looked to web forums and mailing lists for my problem solving/how other people fixed it issues: (notably http://www.accessifyforum.com/ and http://www.webaim.org/discussion/archives.php) but in terms of books, my (creative) team like Joe Clark's Building Accessible Websites, Sarah Horton's Access By Design, and Slatin and Rush's Maximum Accessibility when they were coming up to speed on what to do.
posted by julen at 2:31 PM on October 14, 2008


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