Website promotion Internet marketing is perhaps the most important part of your Internet sales strategy. Without creativity, your website can get lost among the thousands of options awaiting surfers online. The first step in defining your website promotion Internet marketing plan is to set reachable objectives and make sure you know how to measure their [...]

The needs of screen magnifier users are overlooked when implementing web accessibility on to a website. Screen magnifiers are used by partially sighted web users to increase the size of on-screen elements. Some users will magnify the screen so that only three to four words are able to appear on the screen at any one [...]

In an attempt to make their sites accessible to all, more and more websites are now offering text-only versions of their sites. With the huge number of inaccessible websites out there, any attempt to make a website accessible to one and all is highly commendable. But is text-only the way forward? The W3C have this [...]

Anyone who knows anything about web accessibility knows that images need alternative, or ALT, text assigned to them. This is because screen readers can’t understand images, but rather read aloud the alternative text assigned to them. In Internet Explorer we can see this ALT text, simply by mousing over the image and looking at the [...]

Making your site accessible means making it available to be used by all. It’s too easy to think that what looks ok to you will do for all. Unfortunately, things aren’t that simple. Websites are no longer just looked at by people sitting down in front of a PC. Today, websites are viewed on PCs, [...]

Step 1 – Get used to looking at the code If you use Dreamweaver as i do, i recommend moving into split screen mode from the start. The more you are aware of what is happening in the code area, the easier adjustments will feel at the fine tuning stages. If you use Frontpage or [...]

Anyone can test a web page or even an entire site for accessibility. The necessary knowledge isnt PhD level or even too vast. It does require familiarity with HTML and CSS, the ability to appreciate the unique challenges faced by users with various disabilities, and an understanding of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines. Beyond that, all [...]

Recently, the Disability Rights Commission research on web accessibility found that awareness of the issue is high, but good practice is terribly low. Perhaps this indicates that commissioners want their sites to be accessible, but don’t know how to go about it. To meet this need for guidance, the Disability Rights Commission has commissioned the [...]

Website Accessibility Having an accessible website is not just a nicety, but a must have. Although there are still issues with inconsistent display of content across browsers, matters are much better than they have been in the past. This means that there is no excuse not to bear in mind accessibility when creating and updating [...]

There’s been widespread speculation about the new legislation being introduced under the DDA (Disability Discrimination Act), which will ensure that websites are accessible to blind and disabled users. Try to find specific information about it on the Internet and chances are you’ll come up empty handed. The RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) and [...]