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Help to Make Your Web Site Accessible
to the Blind and Visually Impaired

These help pages are for Lions who want to make their web sites accessible to the blind and vision impaired. Some of the presentation assumes a basic working knowledge of HTML. If you know little or nothing of HTML, you can teach yourself using an online tutorial such as that offered by Case Western Reserve University.

  DESIGN & GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

This page offers suggestions and gereral rules of thumb about how to approach the creation of a web site that is accessible to the blind and visually disabled.

  SETTING THE STAGE FOR WEB PAGE PRESENTATION

This page offers suggestions about the specific language you should use to ensure that your web pages are compatible with Auditory Web Browsers. It also tells how to make sure that your web site is recognized by search engines.

  THE FRIENDLY USE OF LINKS

This page shows how to create and use links so that they enhance assessibility.

  ALLOWING THE WEB READER TO SKIP STANDARD MENUS

This page shows how to set up standard menus so they can be efficiently managed by web readers.

  USEFUL LINKS FOR CREATING AN ACCESSIBLE WEB SITE

This page provides an annotated series of links to web resources for accessibility and various aspects of web site creation.

These pages are a work in progress. Last update: October 8, 2002.    

 
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