Designing for Accessibility

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even to read the information when they find it!

Sounds stupid? It happens all the time! Take a look at these common errors, and see how many of them are in your website.

Fixed-width layouts

You’ve seen websites where the content appears in a band in the centre of the browser window? If you expand the size of the window, the content stays in the middle. Nick James has a website like this. Peter Jones goes even further – he even lets you set the colour and position of the background!

So: what’s the problem?

Small screens: The website designer has no idea what size screen the visitors are using. If the content won’t fit, then either the stuff on the edges won’t be seen at all, or else the user will have to keep scrolling backwards and forwards to read each line of text.

Who uses “small”

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