Website Accessibility – The Basics
[ad_1] Accessibility is a major consideration for any good web designer. It's important to make your website available to as wide an audience as possible, there are a number of different ways this can be achieved:Cross-browser compatibility - This involves checking through and testing sites in a variety of different browsers e.g. IE7, IE8, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome. This is very basic accessibility and yet still a stumbling block for many sites!Use of alt tags - Alt tags should be used on any image on the website that has a purpose beyond being decorative, if the image is relatively self-explanatory then a simple description will suffice, if it's more complicated e.g. a graph or chart it should be described in the content of the page or using a "longdesc" tag and...


