Many options must be checked manually to make sure of your compliance. I check all my pages with the different online validators as they check criteria a little different. Then after passing them I do the manual checks to make sure.

Some times I get one of the young students from the local deaf and blind school to view my pages and give me recommendations.

• One of the first things is to validate your page with as many programs as possible to make sure your page is OK.
• Use css and xhtml for better accessibility
• Read everything you can about design and accessibility before you start your template
• Decide what level of accessibility you want to achieve and design to that level
• Make a working template for your design, and make sure it is valid xhtml and accessible before you start your other pages
• When you make your template always make sure that you can make changes in your style sheet and not have to go to every page to make a design change
• Make sure you check each page after making changes in order to guarantee there are no errors

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2. css tips
3. Accessibility tips
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