Designing for Inclusion
Inclusive design, design for all, digital inclusion, universal usability, and similar efforts address a broad range of issues in making technology available to and usable by all people whatever their abilities, age, economic situation, education, geographic location, language, etc. Accessibility focuses on people with disabilities — people with auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual impairments. The documents below explore some of the overlaps between inclusive design and web accessibility, and help managers, designers, developers, policy makers, researchers, and others optimize their efforts in these overlapping areas.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
These are the standard Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) . They covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
Kendo UI Accessibility Overview
We use a lot of Telerik Controls to increase the efficiency of our development. We had been using DHTMLX in the past, which is a fantastic library, but it was entirely inaccessbile to screen readers. Telerik controls were designed to enable screen readers, high-contrast themes and even the ability to leverage simple HTML tables as datasources, allowing the complete removal of Javascript and Dynamic HTML.
More detail about the kendo UI is constantly developing. Here are the Sec. 508 Details on Kendo controls