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  • Acronyms and abbreviations - always ensure you explain the full acronym or abbreviation, there's no guarantee that everyone will know what it means.
  • ASCII text - ASCII art often represents something different visually from its meaning as a text character.
  • Font sizes - giving people the ability to change text size in their browsers, means that you can size text as you wish.
  • Language - indicate the main language of the page and language changes within it, so that speech and braille output know how to read it.
  • Text only websites - the Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI) states that a text version of a page, not a website, should only be used if content cannot be made accessible with existing technologies.
  • Sitemaps - providing a sitemap as an alternative means to navigation helps everybody, but only if it is not image based or complicated to access.
  • Writing for the web - clear language makes a site's content easy to read and helpful for people new to the web or people with learning difficulties.

Last updated: 11 September 2009

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