This is the shortest article I have ever written on the subject of accessibility. For me it’s a comforting thought that it really is this simple to make a web 2.0 app accessible.

1. Make a web site that works without JavaScript and follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
2. Grab a library such as jQuery that allows you to inject your bells and whistles with an onload / document ready method and keep your JavaScript out of the body of your HTML.

More accessibilty techiques can be found at the recently re-launched Made For All.

The remainder of the archived articles from the original made for all are online:

• Accessible place holder text in forms
• AAA – Acronyms, Abbreviations and Accessibility
• Serving up accessibility with Apache
• Designing for users with dyslexia
• Describing document text for accessibility
• Beyond the alt attribute: Accessible web graphics
• Building Accessible Tables

What strikes me when reading through these 5 year old articles is how relevant they all still are, more so with the growth in mobile browsing devices. With content from Ian Lloyd, Anitra Pavka , Joe Clark,  Gez Lemon and of course the author of this blog these articles are a little piece of the web that begged to be saved.

After a 6 year hiatus, Made For All, the first online publication about accessible web development is back online.

New articles are due soon that deal with accessibility and modern web development which has come along way since MFA was first published. I am proud to take the rein on the publication again and look forwards to producing more quality articles on creating accessible web content.

In the meantime, two old articles are now back online:

• An interview with Julie Howell of the RNIB.
• An interview with Joe Clark, author of building accessible web sites.