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Mobile Web Design: Be Swift About It!
by Halla Kolbeinsdotir

Halla Kolbeinsdotir

Halla Kolbeinsdottir looks at what's happening in the mobile web industry, and explores a free online tool that makes it possible for anyone to create their own personalized, standards-compliant web site that works across all mobile phones. Now, you can impress your friends with your own mobile web site. That's exciting!

 

Section 508: Uncle Sam's Guide To Web Accessibility
by Rob Ballou

Rob Ballou

If you've ever worked on a US federal government web site, you've probably encountered Section 508 law for web accessibility. In this article, Rob wades through the jargon to deliver the tips you need to ensure the sites you build are compliant.

 

Derek Featherstone: Accessibility is More Than Compliance
by Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank

Derek Featherstone has forged a name for himself as an author, speaker, and web accessibility expert. In this interview, he explains to SitePoint's Kevin Yank what it means to develop an accessible web site “beyond compliance.”

 

Beyond the Guidelines: Advanced Accessibility Techniques
by Trenton Moss

Trenton Moss

If you think the W3C guidelines are your ticket to an accessible site, think again! While the W3C guidelines are important, if you want your web site to be truly accessible, you'll need to venture beyond these guidelines. Trenton explains all in this hands-on technical tour!

 

Secret Benefits of Accessibility Part 2: Better Search Ranking
by Trenton Moss

Trenton Moss

Think accessibility is just about helping human visitors use your site? Think again! As Trenton reveals, many accessibility techniques can aid search spiders, to help boost your search rankings, too.

 

Secret Benefits of Accessibility Part 1: Increased Usability
by Trenton Moss

Trenton Moss

Accessibility doesn't exist in isolation. Improve your site's accessibility and you could reap other, unexpected rewards! In the first of his 2-part series, Trenton reveals how increased accessibility can also improve a site's usability.

 

10 Accessibility Blunders of the Big Players
by Trenton Moss

Trenton Moss

Big companies with big sites, big userbases, and big wallets should lead the way in terms of accessibility. But, as Trenton explains, major sites - from Amazon to Google – can and do make usability blunders. Learn from their mistakes with this quick round-up of prime offenders!

 

Using Accesskeys is Easy
by Greg Harvey

Greg Harvey

Accesskeys add real value to your site for very little effort. Once you insert them into your pages, you'll wonder why you never did before! Accesskeys *are* easy, as Greg explains...

 

How To Sell Accessibility
by Trenton Moss

Trenton Moss

You want to build accessible sites, but your clients don't see the need. How can you convince them to fork over the cash it'll take to ensure their site's accessible by all Web users? Trenton has the answers...

 

Interview - Julie Howell, Royal National Institute of the Blind
by Nigel Peck

Nigel Peck

Nigel asks a few critical questions of the Digital Development Officer for the UK Royal National Institute of the Blind. Find out the implications of the new Disability Discrimination Act legislation, the results of recent disability discrimination litigation, and more...

 

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