Stanford Online Accessibility Program

Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

Practical, hands-on advice and best practices solutions to a number of common and not-so-common online accessibility issues - often with specific source code for you to use. This ever expanding list of possible solutions will be driven in part by developer's requests.

• Acronym and Abbreviations
  Use the or elements to expand short forms in your documents.
• Captioning Media for iTunes
  Captioning Media for iTunes requires some specialized tools and a bit of time to get right. Sadly, this process can only be done on a macintosh system so far, but as means and methods emerge for PC based solutions, they will be added.
• Images and Icons Used as Links: Size Considerations
  Images - or hot spots in image maps - that are too small can be very difficult to activate using voice controlled systems, touch screens, or even by traditional pointing devices used by someone with reduced fine motor control. For this reason, it is strongly recommended making linked images - or image map hot spots - as large as your design allows.
• Scripting Languages: Client-Side and Server-Side
  Developers must remember that in the spirit of Universal Accessibility, not all user agents will support client-side scripting.
• Styling the <hr> element
  Styling the horizontal rule element using CSS

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