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liamcrane

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Really nice site mate good job! Very neat and easy to read, i think a lot of people try to plough to much into a site and it just ends up over crowded and yours is clear and well presented.

Im no expert by any means, i have only just learnt to code in html and css (this week :p) so i have a lot to learn. Im looking to write my first site from scratch shortly, just need to decide what i would like to base it on and maybe learn some jquery as well to give it a nice little edge.

Will take some inspiration from yours for sure
 

AHarvey

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from an accessibility point of view it needs tweaking quite a bit. :(

It looks nice from someone with good vision, and you can tab through it ok but no alt tags on images etc.
 

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Russinating said:
Yeah haven't got round to that yet. Video doesn't lend itself too well to blind people either :p
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Don't say that to my boss she'll hunt you down and stamp on you! :p Video's that offer closed captions also appeal greatly to those with hearing impairment, and blind people can follow videos with good narration (or extra narration).

Until I started working here I would have said the same, but you'd be surprised what rules/laws/guidelines there are for people who are visually impaired (I won't even go into the pan-disability stuff).

Run the site through a WCAG or accessibility checker such as WAVE.

Color contrasts all look ok, keyboard nav works well.

We also use screen readers (ChromeVox is a decent Chrome one) and use good skip links :)

I'm building my photography site so know how hard it can be to take a visual site and try to make it fit everyone :)
 
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