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a11y ?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 04:39 AM EDT
What does "a11y mean?

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"a11y"? (alpha-one-one-yankee)?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 08:49 AM EDT
Had to look that one up:
Wikipedia

Abbreviation technique I hadn't seen before. It stands for "accessibility" (first and last letters of the word, with middle eleven letters replaced with the number "11").

Some social media thing, I'd wager.

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looking in the wrong direction
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 10:19 AM EDT
>That way, roughly 30% of a website it readable. Without it,
roughly 99% of the same website would be readable.

The last "readable" should be "unreadable".

That sentence should read:
"That way, roughly 30% of a website it readable. Without it,
roughly 99% of the same website would be unreadable."

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looking in the wrong direction
Authored by: MadTom1999 on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 10:45 AM EDT
I recently worked for a small council - I was in charge of getting the councils
website accessibility up the table. I got it from ~500 and into the top 10 and
learned that if you do the accessibility first - i.e. make everything simple and
clean and direct - and all HMTL then the need/desire for flashiness disappears.

Two points:1) Its really easy to fix HTML/simple asp stuff - several orders of
magnitude easier than clever flash wizzbang stuff. Its easier for the user to
describe what the problem is which is 99% of the work done.
2) see 1)

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