Ive been looking into Accessiblit
I've been looking into Accessiblity lately as well as the Microsoft Accessibility Inititive [6]. The American's with Disabilities act requires that Federal Websites be accessible to all [1]. The W3C has a number of pages on Web Accesiblity, under the WAI working group. These guidelines [2] and [3] offer a lot of guidelines and techniques [4] on how to write HTML that is up to snuff and accesible to all. These extra tags and techniques allow Screen Reading Software [5] that linearize HTML and provide additional context, like which labels go with which text boxes. You can test your website for accessiblity with online tools like Bobby.[7]
[1] http://www.section508.gov/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-0203
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS
[5] http://www.freedomscientific.com
[6] http://www.microsoft.com/enable
[7] http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en
[8] http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert
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