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9 Mar 06, 10:23 AM - User-friendly websites for all
Not just of interest to those of us who geekily work on websites, this one - yesterday saw the launch of key guidance on how to develop a website which is user-friendly for disabled people. Under the snappy title of (phew), the document - which has been jointly commissioned by the and the - is applicable to all organisations that commission or maintain public-facing websites and web-based services.
If these businesses need any more convincing of the worth of having an accessible website, maybe it should come in the form of a reminder that it will allow them to get hold of a share of that all-important spending power of disabled people, estimated at some £80 billion per year. And yet an investigation by the DRC revealed that 81 per cent of British websites are still inaccessible ...
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At 02:27 AM on 02 Aug 2006, clr wrote:
the link to tjhe doc dies not work!
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