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Web composition with WCAG in mind

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Vicente Luque Centeno,

Carlos Delgado Kloos,

Martin Gaedke,

Martin NussbaumerAuthors Info & Claims

W4A '05: Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

Pages 38 - 45

https://doi.org/10.1145/1061811.1061819

Published: 10 May 2005 Publication History

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Accessibility should be a part of the Web design process instead of being a post-design repair process. Thus, it should be more integrated within the internal authoring tools' mechanism of generating new accessible Web contents. Web pages are usually composed of small pieces of HTML code which, dynamically nested and combined, generate full Web pages. This Web composition, specially when creating Web pages from data extracted from heterogeneous or external sources, should have accessibility into account in order to guarantee that the final page being constructed is accessible. This paper presents the set of rules that, in a Web composition process, a design tool must follow in order to create accessible Web pages. These rules are formalized with W3C standards like XPath and XQuery expressions. We also present WSLS as an accessibility enabled authoring tool that makes this task feasible, and focus in how this tool incorporates accessibility into the process of generating new Web contents.

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W4A '05: Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

May 2005

109 pages

ISBN:1595932194

DOI:10.1145/1061811

Conference Chairs:
Simon Harper
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Yeliz Yesilada
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Carole Goble
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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