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Beneficial Standards

Accessible web sites are compliant with web standards. There are benefits to this such as ensuring cross-browser compatibility and other reasons you’ll discover herein. It’s not difficult to do and the benefits outweigh any possible difficulties.

All you have to do, as a developer, is start with basic, common mark-up, then style and layout the work using a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), and use the proper elements for the right reasons — they all have a specific role. It shouldn’t boggle the mind.

You may think that learning how to do all this will be a bother, but it’s not; it’s really the basics you will be implementing. Once you learn the basics you’re already making a reasonably accessible site. Once this is learned, you can then learn how to make the progressive enhancements appreciated by many capable users.