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The Art of Accessibility

Mention progressive enhancement as it pertains to web development and many people are going to immediately think of proper and accessible methods of adding JavaScript to a web page. In reality, though, everything is a progressive enhancement. From the addition of styles, imagery, and aesthetic touches, to layout, links, to the aforementioned scripting, even the content can play a role in this category. All of it can enhance a web site, and all of it must be applied progressively. Let’s explore this further…

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The ByUsers site impressed upon us a few things as soon as we loaded the home page: simplicity and open design were two. The purpose of the site was made clear right away, so that was yet another thing we appreciated. We like that: being able to know what a site is about with a few seconds of perusal is a very positive thing. There were some things we didn’t know, of course, such as the tie-in to Virgin Media, but we’re realists and know we can’t get it all in the title and opening paragraph. We did assume that those for whom this site is applicable would know all they needed immediately.

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What is the most accurate answer to this seemingly age-old question? Speaking for myself, I’d say it does cost more to create an accessible site. Cheaper alternatives exist on the world “wild” web, but not on my menu — I only make accessible sites and won’t entertain opportunities to make them otherwise. But my labors will cost the client more money than what they might spend on some low-end assembly-line site hammered out by a developer that doesn’t care. And I feel absolutely justified in doing so. After all, creating a through-and-through quality, top-of-the-line accessible site does take time, extra attention to detail, and a sound knowledge of the requirements. This knowledge has value, quality takes time, and time is money.

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The Regelingenbank Stadskanaal site sports a liquid layout, a clean, intuitive interface and plenty of navigation options and fallbacks are provided. Serious attention has been paid to accessibility features and it is in this area the site excels. When providing so many accessibility features, it’s not always easy to fit them into the site design but it’s been done neatly and judiciously. The site doesn’t face many challenges in terms of delivering rich media but what it does deliver, it delivers in a rock solid way.

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