{"id":294,"date":"2011-09-30T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/tips-tools-and-a-reason-to-care-about-web-accessibility\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T21:38:02","slug":"tips-tools-and-a-reason-to-care-about-web-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/tips-tools-and-a-reason-to-care-about-web-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips, tools and a reason to care about web accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t often that a major online tech and social media outlet such as mashable takes on the topic of usability and accessibility, so I want to make sure that their article on the subject gets as much attention as possible.&#160; In an unscientific comparison of how many responses a typical Mashable article receives when posting about the iPad or Google Plus versus the number of comments posted on this topic, I&#8217;d say either few care or most are clueless.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Granted, it&#8217;s not the most exciting subject in the world, but I&#8217;m just so worked up into a fizz that Mashable put it out there, I&#8217;m going to ride their coattails and augment their efforts somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Here are three posts on the topic of web site accessibility that I wholeheartedly recommend.&#160; First, the reason it&#8217;s important by yours truly:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepronews.com\/2010\/03\/18\/why-you-should-care-about-web-site-accessibility\/\">Why You Should Care about Web Site Accessibility<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Next, some tips that will guide you through the process.&#160; This article was written by Dennis Lembree, creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easychirp.com\/\">Easy Chirp:<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingsearch.com\/articles\/25-ways-to-make-your-site-more-accessible.php\">25 Ways to Make Your Site More Accessible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, since you will need the tools to accomplish the task, here&#8217;s the Mashable piece:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/09\/30\/website-usability-tools\/\">22 Essential tools for Usability<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please take the time to consider how you can develop your projects in a way that is inclusive and accessible to everyone.&#160; I hope these three offerings convince you.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>LL<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:52c8c98a-c8c7-44f5-8194-a5a8d59fc88f\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Accessibility\" rel=\"tag\">Accessibility<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/development\" rel=\"tag\">development<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Mashable\" rel=\"tag\">Mashable<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/usability\" rel=\"tag\">usability<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/technology\" rel=\"tag\">technology<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t often that a major online tech and social media outlet such as mashable takes on the topic of usability and accessibility, so I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/tips-tools-and-a-reason-to-care-about-web-accessibility\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tips, tools and a reason to care about web accessibility<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-articles","category-at-news","category-at-tips-and-tricks","category-cool-tools","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accessibleinsights.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}