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I'm going to now show you how to optimize your workspace to make your pages more accessible. To create accessible pages you'll need to associate information such as labels and descriptions with your page objects to make sure your content is accessible to all users. To do this you'll want to activate the accessibility dialogue box for each object as you insert it into your Dreamweaver pages. This is so that Dreamweaver prompts you for accessibility information. When those elements are inserted into the pages you can activate a dialogue box for any of the objects in the accessibility category in the preferences dialogue. Do that by choosing edit, preferences in the Macintosh operating system this will be Dreamweaver preferences and then here in the accessible category. Notice you have show attributes when inserting go ahead and select the objects for which you want to activate accessibility dialogue boxes. For example form objects, frames all media and images to keep focus in the panel when opening maintains focus on the panel which makes it accessible to the screen reader. If you don't select this option the focus remains in design or code view when a user opens a panel. Select the off screen rendering option when using a screen reader. I usually just keep that checked, click OK to accept all of those preferences and so I can show you just one more time the accessibility dialogue box looks like this whenever you insert an image or other media that you specified there in the preferences dialogue so lets go ahead and insert any media here and there is the image tag accessibility attributes. Or you can enter in the alternate text that the reader will read when it accesses that image and then a long description here. Now to wrap up this section of the tutorial covering site management in this section you have learned how to move, rename and delete files using the files window. How to check links with Dreamweaver link checker. How to synchronize local and remote files, how to use the check in and check out files feature. How to check the accessibility of your content and how to make your pages more accessible to begin with. Let me now move on to the next section of the tutorial on ways of extending Dreamweaver, including how to use Dreamweaver exchange, how to manage extensions and how to install and use Dreamweaver CS3 extensions.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
Author: James Gonzalez
SKU: 33789
ISBN: 1-934743-04-6
Release Date: 2007-09-06
Duration: 10 hrs / 125 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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