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Website accessibility is not something that can be fully checked or validated by some or other automated process . At most these tools can check our pages against some of the accessibility checkpoints. Most of the checking still has to be done manually.
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Optimizing a website normally means getting everything to run at the fastest speed possible. From an accessibility viewpoint this is quite important as we want even the dial-up users to be able to use our sites.
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I have seen numerous sites that offer website design tips in some or other form. Today I stumbled upon an old article from 2004 that provides design tips in a very unique way.

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The site I found is entitled Wish You Were Here (link no longer exists). These guys have provided different ‘postcards’ that contain design tips in the categories design, coding and content. The idea behind this is that you can go to the different postcards to view the relevant tips or you could in fact send a friend the url of a certain postcard if you feel that he/she needs the relevant advice.
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A significant proportion of users of the Internet are visually impaired to some or other degree. As stated numerous times before on this site, we all want as many visitors to our sites as possible. We cannot afford to leave any group of people out of our design equation. The following are some basic guidelines that if implemented, will allow access to your site for many of the visually impaired.
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If you use large images, Flash or Javascript on your site without alternatives, you are most probably excluding a lot of people from your site. As the title of this post suggests, you could be excluding not only the disabled folks but quite a number of other groupings of users. Today I would like to have a quick look at just one of these groups, the people who are surfing the Internet via a PDA or mobile phone.
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When I started using CSS I quickly ran into the problem of having unequal heights in the different columns of the design. This was extremely frustrating at the time.

I remember using all sorts of tricks to overcome the problem.
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I would like to start this article off with a reminder. Believe it or not, not everyone has access to broadband and the other faster Internet connection technologies. In the neck of the woods where I stay, most people still have to rely on dial-up services to access the Net.
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I am definitely not a SEO expert, but to me it makes sense that if one implements SEO practices you should also consider the accessibility aspects. The final goal behind SEO is to get as many people as possible to easily find, and visit your site. If you ensure that your site also complies with the accessibility standards you will have so many more potential visitors to your site.
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