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¶ … accessible to the disabled is a good business decision even when resources are limited. The most obvious reason for designing accessible websites is to increase the number of potential customers that can access the site, but there are other benefits to designing accessible websites. One major benefit is that many of the techniques that make a website work well with accessibility technologies such as screen readers also make it easier for search engines to index, increasing search rankings. There are downsides to creating accessible websites; few web designers are able to design sites that are both accessible and visually impressive. Many techniques commonly used to increase the visual impact of a site make it less accessible. In spite of the difficulties, an accessible website is a worthwhile investment.
Business websites should be designed with accessibility for the disabled in mind. Disabled users are potential customers, and an inaccessible website is likely to alienate them, as well as their friends and family members. The number of lost customers is likely to far exceed the number of disabled users who...
One of the major techniques for improving accessibility of websites for disabled users is simply following web standards. A standards-compliant site is more likely to work properly with assistive technologies such as screen readers and braille terminals, as well as browsers on devices such as cellular telephones, which are becoming increasingly popular with non-disabled users. Standards-compliant sites are also far less likely to require changes to remain compatible with future web browsers. (Holzschlag 2002) A common argument against standards-compliant, accessible sites is that they lack the visual appeal of nonstandard, inaccessible sites. As designers have grown accustomed to separating structure in the form of extensible hypertext markup language from visual presentation in the form of cascading style sheets, this argument has been shown to be false. (Shea 2005)
Designing accessible websites may involve more cost and time than inaccessible sites, especially if visual presentation is a major consideration. Common techniques used to improve a site's visual appeal can…
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Shea, Dave. (2005) "css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design." Retrieved July 25, 2005 from CSS Zen Garden web site: http://csszengarden.com
Microsoft Windows File Systems: Comparison and Contrast The standard versions of Windows use three types of file systems: FAT, exFAT, and NTFS. Windows 8 server also uses ReFS. The 8 server (Windows Server 2012) is the only version that uses that type of file system, as the other versions of Windows are not able to boot from that type of file system at all. In order to better understand these file
The AD MMC even permits multi-selection and editing of user objects, which is a potential reclaimed from the NT user Manager days. Among the greatest changes in the MMC is the Saved Queries. Saved Queries permit the user to build XML-based queries into your AD users & Computers MMC and refresh them periodically to achieve the updated results. This gives the capability to really build custom views and reports
0 of the Windows.NET Development Framework. From the standpoint of Microsoft Windows Vista being suitable as an enterprise desktop, the inclusion of highly differentiated security features and the reliance on the security development lifecycle will be quickly tested and evaluated by CIOs looking for the increased productivity that Windows Vista claims to provide in conjunction with Microsoft Office applications, for example. For those enterprises with a geographically diverse workforce, the inclusion
Document your plan in an Executive Summary. As confidentiality is a critical issue in Human Resource (HR) records, the installation of these systems will require more intensive pre-definition of parameters of the Windows Vista Business edition as well. The same technique used in the accounting scenario of "ghosting" will also be used to ensure accuracy and consistency of the disk image of operating system and applications are defined and then
Microsoft has provided legacy API support in the latest WinHEC-delivered kit of the Microsoft Windows Vista Developer's SDK to ensure upward and backward compatibility. Having a more streamlined kernel is also going to give the user interface greater speed and ability to respond to more complex imaging tasks. As a result, Microsoft is planning to have Tablet PC technology and touch-screen support on all versions of Windows 7 in
Microsoft and runs on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X operating system. The current versions are Microsoft PP 2011 for Mac and Microsoft PP 2010 for Windows. Originally designed for Macintosh and called "Presenter," Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin of Forethought, Inc. created the original version with the name changed to "PowerPoint" in 1987. Microsoft bought "Forethought" in that same year, and developed the program (Atkinson, 2009). It was