Enhance the accessibility of your Web site

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Most interconnect sites support access to at least two major browsers: Internet Explorer and Netscape browser. Why, then? Because if you choose not to support any of these browsers, you may lose some of your site's visitors. Of course, you want to make sure that your site is accessible to as many people as possible through reasonable overhead.

With that in mind, have you ever considered how accessible your site is to people with vision impairment? By using special Web browsers, these visually impaired people are free to browse the Web. However, even with the most powerful technical support, it is not able to provide visually impaired people with a sense of internet access that is equivalent to those who are not visually impaired.

Here are some tips to help make your Web page feel better for people with visual impairments

The first is to some important elements on your Web page; <input>, and <applet> set the ALT attribute. This allows special web browsers to effectively convey the information in the picture to the user. You don't have to set properties on every picture on the page-just set the most important pictures that can express your opinion.

The properties of a network application that is often accessed are called "accesskey." The consortium defines a property as part of the label <a>, and most of the attributes come together to form a related label. When designing an HTML page, you want users to be able to click on hyperlinks, but when users have impaired eyesight, it is not easy to use the mouse to click on the hyperlinks in the screen. and using the keyboard or accesskey as a shortcut to access the site, for people with visual impairment, is the best.

If your site supports multiple language displays, or if you want the language of your Web page to be a visitor to the web, you might want to consider using the "lang" attribute. You can set this property in your

For example, the <span lang= "de" >DasSchlimmstekommtnoch.</span> this statement can be used to underline a line of German in a foreign language page of an HTML text (such as English). Setting the properties of "Lang" allows you to modify applications that use the pronunciation of other languages.

If you use acronyms or acronyms on your site, you can use the <abbr> and <acronym> elements to label them. These elements have a property called "title" that contains the meaning of these acronyms or acronyms. For example, an NFL page contains something like: <acronym title= "National Football League" >NFL</ACRONYM>

The above is by no means a complete list, but these examples can give you some inspiration when creating Web pages. I'm not encouraging you to rebuild everything; just remember that the next time you open your HTML page, you will find that your site will be the easiest to access and will have the most visitors.

Author: Mark Peterson, a Microsoft Certified Solution Development Specialist (MCSD), is a consultant to the Tek system. He has developed various websites ranging from E-commerce to intranet.