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5 Steps To Reworking A Legacy Site
Many articles and tutorials on developing an accessible site do tend to assume that you have the luxury of starting with a blank sheet. However, in practice, many developers are faced with large legacy sites that are in dire need of an accessibility makeover. They may not even be able to develop a replacement site behind the scenes but, instead, have to deal with improving accessibility levels on the existing site that is being actively used.
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Due Chiacchiere
The Due Chiacchier site has improved significantly since it failed to make our submission queue some time back. The comments we had then have been taken onboard and the site’s overall accessibility has really been enhanced as a result. The more sharp-eyed amongst you may notice that the site has the occasional validation error due to the presence of embed. However, given Internet Explorer’s reported unreliability with object and taking into account feedback from disabled user testing groups, we decided that embed is still the most reliable and accessible approach in this situation and accepted the validation error as a reasonable trade-off.
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One Small Change
Our hope is to find more web site gems that reach the higher award levels.
We’ve decided to make a small change around here: We’ve decided to not rely solely on submissions from visitors. We’re going to start adding a few sites to the grading queue ourselves as we happen to stumble upon them. If we find a great site out there that we deem exemplary, we want to showcase it — this will be done with the site owner’s permission, of course. We’ve never hit the bottom of our queue, but we have decided this might be a good thing to do all the same. It is because of our high rejection rate.
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