http://www.co-internet.net/net/articles/disabledacc.txt.html Make Your Site Accessible To the Disabled ------------------------------------------------------ by Ralph Tegtmeier ------------------------------------------------------ Check your site: is it easily accessible to disabled persons? Because if it is, search engine spiders will index it well just as easily! Still in doubt? Read what AltaVista has to say on the matter: "Your rule of thumb should be to have at least one full set of your content available in a form that the blind can read. The blind are some of the best users of the Internet today. They use text-only browsers and text-to-voice converters, and they are able to navigate very well unless people put up barriers. The same kinds of barriers that stop the blind also stop Web crawlers." Source: < http://doc.altavista.com/adv_search/ast_haw_wellindexed.shtml > Here's a free online checkup tool: < http://www.cast.org/bobby/ > You can even download an offline version for local checkups: < http://dev.cast.org/bobby/download.cfm > They also offer a page with links on how to create accessible sites: < http://www.cast.org/bobby/access_sites.html > This text may freely be republished or distributed in unmodified form provided the following resource box is included intact either at the beginning or the end of the article and a complimentary copy or notice (link) is sent to the author at the address specified below: Ralph Tegtmeier is the co-founder and principal of fantomaster.com GmbH (Belgium), < http://fantomaster.com/ >, a company specializing in webmasters software development, industrial-strength cloaking and search engine positioning services. He has been a web marketer since 1994 and is editor-in-chief of fantomNews, a free newsletter focusing on search engine optimization, available at: < http://fantomaster.com/fantomnews-sub.html > You can contact him at mailto:fneditor@fantomaster.com (c) copyright 2002 by fantomaster.com All rights reserved. Downloaded at: < http://fantomaster.com/ >

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