Make Your Websites Accessible 
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| Remember that if you are doing business with many countries in the world there is a legal requirement that your website must be accessible. So, if you rely on video, you must also supply a transcript or subtitles for deaf users. Tip Credibility: 8 (Best Tip!) |
| If considering using sign language to enhance videos, remember that there is no single respected version of sign language worldwide. Even parts of a single country (such as the UK) use different variants. Alternative methods of presentation can be used. Tip Credibility: 8 |
| Organise pages using CSS, not frames or tables. These are very hard for screenreader software to cope with. Tip Credibility: 7 |
| Adding text to Image ALT Tags will also help your SEO efforts. However it is important that the text includes the primary keywords you are targeting, which must also be present in your TITLE Tag. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| People who are born deaf often have poor literacy skills because english is their second language. Please don't rely on subtitles which they may not be able to read. You need to use videos in sign language. I work for a deaf charity. Trust me. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| Make sure and test your site is displaying correctly in all browsers. What shows up OK in Internet Explorer can be misaligned and hard tofollow in Firefox Tip Credibility: 5 |
| When building your websites,...
Be sure to make your websites accessible for blind people.
When you add graphics, pics, or other visual items.
Be sure to add a text captions to explain what the blind person is seeing.
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| Add the ALT tag for images. Screen readers will read out the ALT text for the visually impaired. Tip Credibility: 4 |
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