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How Accessible is Your Website? 8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility | Spyre Studios

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:41:56 +0000

Designing a website that’s as much successful as it is effective takes time, skills, and a lot of testing. Normally, when we’re talking about web design and we hear the word testing, the first thing that comes to mind is usability, and that’s fine, but when was the last time you sat down to analyze the level of accessibility of your website?

Testing on other aspects of your website are important, however, a lot of us seem to neglect our websites accessibility. This can ultimately lead to the loss of a wide range of users and poor elements of design.

But not to fear, below we’ve compiled a set of tools that will help you combat poor accessibility. Every tool is free to use and has been chosen because it’s easy to use and offers quality testing.

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Reach a Larger Audience with Content Translation Tools

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:34:39 +0000

Of course, your visitors can use third party tools like Google Translate or Babelfish to translate your site themselves, but you should never rely on users to do anything.Laziness is king on the internet, so always make things as easy as possible. Think how social media icons increase traffic even though users have browser bars and bookmarklets that they can use.Fortunately, you don’t have to hire a professional translator to support multiple languages on your site. Thanks to wonderful APIs such as the Google Language API, there are a number of free and easy-to-install translation solutions available. Although these automatic methods will never be as good professional translations written by translators, they provide an attractive opportunity to offer internationalization at no cost.

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An Idiot’s Guide To Accessible Website Design | Web Design Ledger

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:24:34 +0000

If you are designing web sites in the UK, you probably already know that the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) mandates web sites be accessible by visually and physically disabled persons. But even if you work in a locale that doesn’t have any accessibility requirements yet, web designers have an obligation to make their clients’ web sites available and accessible to anyone who wishes to visit.

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