Website Accessibility Tips
Website accessibility is one of the most important things to consider which your website. To comply with the law you must have a website that is easily accessable by both the disabled and non-disabled, regardless of the users internet connection speed of browser,
The Disability Discriminations Act
The following points need special consideration as the visitors to your website
- May be deaf, blind or unable to move
- May not be able to use a mouse or keyboard
- May have poor vision and have difficulty reading
- May have a small screen, low screen resolution, still using dialup
- May use a different browser or an earlier version of a browser
- Be aware it is an offence if you do not comply with the Disability Discriminations Act.
How do you address website accessibility?
We have included a list of general areas / guidelines that cause problems with accessibility that we recommend you review first.
- Do not use a website constructed using frames
- Validate all your pages and style sheets using w3.org
- Use automated tools for checking the accessibility of your website
- Make sure that all your images have alternative text (alt tags)
- If you use Flash or Javascript keep it to a minimum or apply the
- technology to parts of the website that are not a vital part of the website
- Increase your text size
- Look for semantic markup
- Disable the CSS to see what your viewers will see if they can not view
- style sheets
- Use a program like Fangs to emulate a screen reader
- Check your colour contrast
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