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Checking Your Web Site for Accessibility
As you develop your Web site, you should periodically check it for accessibility. In addi-
tion to reviewing the Section 508 and WAI guidelines, you can do several things to verify
that your site is accessible to everyone:
• Set up your browser to suppress the display of images. Does each page still convey all
of the necessary information?
• Set your browser to display pages in extra large fonts and with a different color
scheme. Are your pages still readable under these conditions?
• Try to navigate your pages using only your keyboard. Can you access all of the links
and form elements?
• View your page in a text-only browser. (You can use the Lynx browser for this task,
located at www.lynx.browser.org. )
• Open your page in a screen reader or other nonvisual browser. (The W3C Web site
contains links to several alternative browsers that you can download as freeware or on
a short-term trial basis in order to evaluate your site.)
• Use tools that test your site for accessibility. (The WAI pages at the W3C Web site con-
tains links to a wide variety of tools that report on how well your site complies with the
WAI and Section 508 guidelines.)
Following the accessibility guidelines laid out by Section 508 and the WAI will result
in a Web site that is not only more accessible to a wider audience, but whose design is
also cleaner, easier to work with, and easier to maintain.
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