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Now we are ready to finally do some website creation. Your assignment is to create a sample web site which demonstrates a few access issues and provides a list of related resources. The purpose of this exercise is twofold, first to practice some of the concepts we have learned up until now, second, to give you a useable resource that you can refer to later. You might also use it as the beginnings of a campus standards web site. Many of them started just this way. Your example site should include the following: I'm assuming you have a preferred method of creating your web pages. Since you are in this class you prbably have at least some familiarity with MS FrontPage. There are, of course, numerous methods and applications available today, from simple text editors and word processors like MS Word to HTML editors like [|Microsoft FrontPage] or [|Adobe Dreamweaver] and other complete website development systems. If you use Adobe applications, be sure to check out their [|Accessibility Resource Center] to locate accessibility information on their products. Covering the specifics of each of these applications goes beyond the scope of this introductory course however. You will need to learn the specifics of your environment on your own. You might do a search on your favorite program's website for "accessibility" as a start. Whichever application or method you choose to use is fine with me. Some of the campus sites I've listed in the lecture will help with specific application implementations, e.g., the Cerritos College site has information specific to FrontPage access issues. Microsoft has posted a white paper on [|Making Your Web Sites More Accessible with Microsoft FrontPage 2000]. For those of you using FrontPage 2003, there is a Microsoft [|Accessibility Features in FrontPage]site. WebAIM also has [|Tutorials on accessible web design] for recent versions of FrontPage and Dreamweaver. If you can post your pages to a web site that the class can access, that would be the easiest way for everyone to view your work. Another possibility would be to create a [|GeoCities]site if you already have a Yahoo account. However, if you can't make your pages available on the web, all you need to do to get credit for this section is to discuss your experiences in the Web site creation forum. That will meet the requirement for this section. You also have the option of zipping your website and uploading it here. If you choose this last option, be sure to first save your page as a complet web page from your browser so the images are included too.
 * 1) A short list of links you want to use as a resource for accessibility issues in the future.
 * 2) At least one picture that includes alt text.
 * 3) For more advanced users only, add a small table. For more info on tables, here is a tutorial document from the High Tech Center Training Unit that will step you through it. http://www.htctu.net/trainings/manuals/web/FormsTablesManual.pdf or if you prefer an online tutorial, try one from WebAIM here: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/tables/.