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IT Accessibility Curriculum and Resources

Using Cascading Style Sheets to Enhance Accessibility

Resources

  • The W3C's Cascading Style Sheets Home Page
    Includes the latest information on the status of various style sheet-related documents, and includes links to resources you can use to learn CSS.
    http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

  • The W3C's W3C CSS Validation Service
    Includes a downloadable version of the validator.
    http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

  • The CSS Zen Garden
    One of a series of sites in which designers take the same basic content and give it an entirely different flavor using nothing more than CSS. If you are still on the fence regarding the power of CSS, this site will convince you!
    http://www.csszengarden.com/

  • The w3schools CSS Tutorials
    Provides tips and techniques at a very granular level. Their mission is "to develop well organized and easy to understand online Web tutorials based on W3C Web standards."
    http://www.w3schools.com/css/

  • The Web Design Group's CSSCheck
    Another excellent style sheet validator.
    http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/

  • How to size text using ems
    Good article on sizing text in documents in a way that transforms according to the visitor's wishes.
    http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/

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