• Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies
• Identify the primary natural language of a document.
• Create a style of presentation that is consistent across pages.
• Validate your accessibility after every update
• Make sure you all alt tags in every graphic
• Use long descriptions to explain something in detail
• Use more than just white space between links every link needs an entity of some kind between the links
• Use descriptive link phrases
• Clearly identify the target of each link
• Don't use same link phrase for different links
• Add titles to your links
• don't open links in a new window
• Labeling form elements
• If you have to use a table make sure you add a summary
• Use more than just color for conveying information
• Do not use blinking or marque type graphics
• Organize your page so it can be read in order is style sheet is disabled
• For every script used make sure you have a noscript
• Ensure that pages are usable when scripts or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported. If this is not possible, provide an alternative accessible page.
• Use the clearest and simplest language for your text
• Make sure you can see your text clearly on your background and there is a good color contrast
• width and height can only be used for an image - where it is needed elsewhere you must use css to achieve this
• Use your Header elements to control page structure
• You must use the Label in Forms
• Mark up lists and list items properly.
• Create a logical tab order for your links
• Use id in place of name in your tags
• Use the same style across your whole site
• use a text reader like lynx to see how your page reads with out all glamor

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