With the ATI project about to hit full swing, I sat in on a 30 minute power session as SXSW titled Accessified! Practical Accessibility Fixes Any Web Developer Can Use. Here are some notes and thoughts I took away from the session.
Don’t be a tool. Use One
There are pleanty of free tools out there for evaluating your web site for accessibility. The best place to start is, if you have Firefox, installing the Web Developer Toolbar. The toolbar enables you to check validation as well as highligh missing alt tags, or headings (which are important to screen readers).
Doing the right thing, without your boss noticing
Use semantically meaningful markup. Using the right element for the right job will help create a richer context for the document. Also you can do simple things like provide hidden “Skip To…” links at beginning of documents in addition to hidden form labels and table heads.
There are tons of more web-based tools and wizards on Accessify such as Table and Form builers.