Evaluating Website Accessibility

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"intended to make it easier for web developers and website owners to perform a basic accessibility evaluation"

1. Evaluating website accessibility part 2, Basic Checkpoints explains accessibility aspects that can be tested with automated tools as well as some relatively easy manual checks.

   1. Validate HTML and CSS
   2. No frames, please
   3. Automated accessibility checking tools
   4. Images and alternative text
   5. Make sure that JavaScript is unobtrusive
   6. Increase text size
   7. Look for semantic markup
   8. Disable CSS
   9. Use Fangs to emulate a screen reader