ADA Compliant Audio

[Kristina]

Hi, I have a problem and need a simple solution.. pretty please!

I need to make our website ADA (American Disablities Act) Compliant. Does anyone have suggestions on how to attach audio to my text. So that when someone moves the mouse over a paragraph or text audio plays? I feel like a deer in the headlights. Have searched the web some for answers but not getting anything simple enough to help me out. Thanks so much!

Kristina

[BGarner]

As long as you follow "Level Triple-A Web Content Accessibility Guidelines", those with page readers can read your site. Triple-A Conformance provides maximum accessibility to those with disabilities.

[Kristina]

Thank you .. unfortunately I am not a web designer by trade but do basic html for our website at work... is there any other direction you can point me in that can give me examples of the code?

[Ryan Fait]

XHTML and CSS are where you need to look.

http://ryanfait.com/?disable=CSS
http://ryanfait.com/?enable=CSS

Both versions use the same HTML, one is without CSS and the other is using CSS. If you understand the correct usage of XHTML united with CSS, you can create accessible websites.

http://w3schools.com/

[Lchad]

Here's a site that looks like it has some great info .

What are you using to build the site? Are you using Dreamweaver 8 by any chance? Dreamweaver 8 has accessible templates installed that are ready to go. They also have a complete Accessible validation component built in to make sure with a click of a button that your site validates for accessibility.
There maybe other software programs that do the same, I'm just not familiar.

Make sure the html code validates ... that's #1. You will have to use xhtml/css to build the site.

Basically you need to provide alt="description" for all graphics, photos and things that html can't read.

Think about colors so that anyone that is site impaired can read it. (colors high in contrast, not muted).

Links should be really descriptive. Don't use "Click here" Navigation should be text... and keep it in the same spot on every page. Keep background images to a minimum and images should not be used in navigation unless you have text over.
Tables, columns, frames and other non-standard forms of designing should be avoided since not all browser read them correctly.

Hope this help... it's a quick overview