Accessibilty etc

fluiduk

fluiduk

fluiduk

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Hi All

I build a few websites for companies on a freelance basis and I have decided I am going to start making a real effort to make the sites more accessible. I dont want companies to come back to me and have a go or sue me if they get into trouble because my sites arent deemed accessible.

However the whole area is new to me. Does anyone have any advice, or reading reccomendations that will steer me in the right path?

Thanks in advance

Aaron
 
iCraig said:
Bah just mention alt attributes in your contract and you're set ;)
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Don't listen to people like iCraig ;)

Just write your code properly (Don't put contextual text in images, and if you must, put the text not the image in your HTML and use an image replacement technique to put it as a background in your CSS) and everything will work out fine. For contextual images, give them appropriate alt tags (Not 'Image', for instance). Make alternative stylesheets for users with impaired vision (high contrast, larger text etc.); do not write different HTML for this :)
 
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