ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated

14. Usability, Accessibility, Mobile Devices, Localization So far, this book has concentrated on the features of ASP.NET with respect to developing Web pages and Web applications that generate standard HTML output for the browser. In fact, A...

Page Validation, Browser Capabilities, and Alternative Content It is very easy to build your Web site in ASP.NET, perhaps using an IDE like Visual Studio, and test it only in your favorite browser. In fact, the built-in ASP.NET Web server and auto...

Making Your Pages Easier to Use As well as adhering to standards, you should create pages and sites that are easy to use. There are many examples on the Web of sites where you seem to go round in circles trying to locate information, or where li...

Supporting Disabled Users and Specialist User Agents Web developers must increasingly consider the needs of users of non-graphical Web browsers, such as text-only browsers, Braille output devices, aural page readers, and other specialist user agen...

Building Pages for Small-Screen and Mobile Devices In Chapter 10, you saw a brief mention of the ASP.NET Mobile Controls that are part of the standard ASP.NET installation. In this section, you will see more details of these controls and how you c...

Supporting Localization and Multiple Languages Applications that support localization usually require some method for storing text strings and other content in multiple languages and formats. The usual approach is through resources stored within t...

Summary In this chapter, you have seen some of the issues that you should consider when building Web pages and Web applications so that they are accessible to the widest possible audience. You may consider some of these issues to be optional; for ...