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zoom Posts: 129 Joined: 4/2/2004 Status: offline	making the site disability friendly - 4/18/2006 19:23:49 i am making a rather large site. i am at the beginning stages now, i am using DW mx 2004. how do i make the site disabled friendly? thanks Lisa _____________________________ www.planethi-fi.com www.skytopdesigns.com


Kitka Posts: 2517 Joined: 1/31/2002 From: Australia Status: offline	RE: making the site disability friendly - 4/18/2006 21:46:13 Congratulations for considering doing this at a practical stage of development. Most people only tack it on later as an afterthought. A good place to start is the Accessibility forum here: http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/Accessibility/forumid-38/tt.htm Read all the FAQs pinned to the top - some contain links to other reputable sites where you can learn more. _____________________________ Kitka It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. (in reply to zoom)


jaybee Posts: 14442 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: making the site disability friendly - 4/19/2006 5:24:30 As Kitka says, the Accessibility Forum is a good place to start. You need to build the site with XHTML and CSS and make sure the site validates for code and for W3C standards. There are free automatic checkers that can do this for you. Start by downloading Firefox if you haven't already done so and then get hold of the Web Developer extension which has many useful tools but notably, direct links to the validators so you can bring up a page and run it through. Design for Firefox, then tweak to fix errors in IE. Don't panic. It looks a lot to get to grips with but it's not too bad. XHTML is just HTML with a few extra formatting rules. CSS is styling and layout. You use that rather than tables and loads of font, colour etc tags in your page. There are many sites around that offer free css layouts. You're using DW but for others reading this, if you're using FP, stay away from the design tab and work in code. You can use the preview pane, it will show you what the results will be in IE but as I said, check it in Firefox as IE doesn't render some things well. Finally, make sure you have plenty of time to do this. Deadlines tend to extend when you start working in this way. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to Kitka)


zoom Posts: 129 Joined: 4/2/2004 Status: offline	RE: making the site disability friendly - 4/19/2006 7:31:09 great, i didnt think of checking for an accessability forum ill read in there. i was reading about it in my web designer mag and figured i was just finnishing up the first page of hundreds for an online store and figured id better get on it now. thanks all _____________________________ www.planethi-fi.com www.skytopdesigns.com (in reply to jaybee)