Website accessibility Hints and Tips

"Making E-recruitment Websites Barrier-free for People with Disabilities"

Technical guidance for web developers, produced by Macromedia, in association with The Employers' Forum on Disability

This guidance can be downloaded free of charge from:

barrierfree-recruitment.com, www.employers-forum.co.uk and www.macromedia.com/uk/macromedia/accessibility

Macromedia have addressed these priority areas:

General design considerations, including accessibility standards, page layout, page structure, text formatting, hypertext links and meta data.
Detailed guidance on building an accessible form, including labelling controls, laying out complex forms and form validation.
Presenting search results in a table, including associating table headers and table data.

"Macromedia is committed to accessibility as a means to not only open doors, but to create doors where none existed before. Access to information is access to employment and full participation in the community. We strive to ensure accessibility of the content and applications created with our products."

Bob Regan, Senior Product Manager, Macromedia

Download Macromedia White Paper - (309 KB) Word version .