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Web developers attempting to build accessible websites often make the same mistakes over and over again. Posted here are 10 quick guidelines to ensure you don’t fall into the same trap.

I recently stumbled upon “We Are Colorblind.com”, an American site set-up to provide examples of which colours and patterns people with colour blindness have the most trouble distinguishing.

Does your website have a funky background image? Great! Now, how does the text appear to visitors who haven’t loaded that image? This post examines a back-up colour for your backgrounds.

Part one of a multi-part series looking at making forms more accessible/usuable for ALL users, not just those with impairments. This post looks at how you can make it obvious which of a series of radio buttons has been selected.

You can create your own keyboard shortcuts for activating various options on your website.
Generally, it’s good practice to follow the guidelines for which access key letters/numbers you should use as outlined on the UK Government Access Keys system, and these are listed below, but you can assign any key to perform a function.
UK Government Recommended [...]

This page details the numerous advantages of having an accessible website, not least of which is ensuring that your organisation is not prosecuted for discrimination – for more details about the legal ramifications of inaccessible website design, please read my post entitled ‘Why should I make my website accessible?‘.
Benefits of accessible Website design
When you create [...]

The following links provide accessibility standards for various different countries outwith the UK.

Multinational
Policies Relating to Web Accessibility (www.w3.org/WAI/Policy) – includes information on web accessibility activities in Australia, New South Wales, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
Australia
Australian Disability Discrimination Act (www.uiaccess.com/dda-aus.html) – [...]

Every visitor to your website is a potential customer. After all, they have taken the trouble to find your site out of all of the hundreds available for organisations in your sector. However, just having a website is not enough, there are legal requirements to take into consideration too.
The W3C accessibility standards are all about [...]