One, accessibility is about making your website attractive and usable to visitors. Just as interesting ideas buried in poor writing will lose their force, a poorly designed website will lose visitors. Good organization on a website serves some of the same purposes as a common structure in a book enhances readability: the table of contents is near the front, indexes are near the back, usually the cover provides a summary of the contents and a positive review or two. Accessibility is about adding information to your design and organization; the information may be duplicative but in a way helpful to, for example, a text browser, not a visual browser. So you can meet both types of access with the same site. Not bad for a bit of work and code. And after all the effort of transferring the thoughts twirling around one's brain into a logical, coherent piece, it's worth making that piece shine for the many audiences using the web..
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