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Original Post: How not to create an accessible website
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I just found the website of the city of Assen, a city in the Netherlands. It has a big image on the home page saying 'visually handicaped'. My first though was, nice, they actually considered handicaped people when designing the page. Now, i've never actually worked with a braille translater, and i also don't have to use very large fonts, but somehow using an image to help the visually handicaped doesn't seem clever to me. You can't easily increase the font size of an image, and a braille translater doesn't show the image at all. Well maybe the alt attribute of the image makes sense? You know what the alt image contains? 'Press here for a different font'... Does that make sense? Yah baby, show me a different font on my braille translater! The rest of the page also doesn't make much sense, the actual contents is burried in 8 or 9 levels of tables, and then the paragraph titles don't use H tags, but are just marked STRONG. That's not something the braille translater can use to create a table of contents with....
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