Make Your Websites More Accessible to More Users with Introduction to Web Accessibility

Eve Andersson, Manager, Accessibility Engineering

Cross-posted with Google Developers Blog

You work hard to build clean, intuitive websites. Traffic is high and still climbing, and your website provides a great user experience for all your users, right? Now close your eyes. Is your website easily navigable? According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people are visually impaired. That’s more than the populations of England, Germany, and Japan combined!

As the web has continued to evolve, websites have become more interactive and complex, and this has led to a reduction in accessibility for some users. Fortunately, there are some simple techniques you can employ to make your websites more accessible to blind and low-vision users and increase your potential audience. Introduction to Web Accessibility is Google’s online course that helps you do just that.



You’ll learn to make easy accessibility updates, starting with your HTML structure, without breaking code or sacrificing a beautiful user experience. You’ll also learn tips and tricks to inspect the accessibility of your websites using Google Chrome extensions. Introduction to Web Accessibility runs with support from Google content experts from September 17th - 30th, and is recommended for developers with basic familiarity with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

There’s a lot to learn in the realm of web accessibility, and a lot of work to be done to ensure users aren’t excluded from being able to easily navigate the web. By introducing fundamental tips to improve web usage for users with visual impairments, Introduction to Web Accessibility is a starting point to learn how to build accessibility features into your code. Registration is now open, so sign up today and help push the web toward becoming truly universally accessible.

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Make Mozilla Firefox load websites faster

If you think that your firefox is slow you can try the following tweak to fasten it.
Note:- Try this only if you are an expert.

• Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter.
• A warning sign will appear, click continue.
• Scroll to the entry- "network.http.pipelining" - Change the value to "True" by double-clicking it.
• Scroll to the entry- "network.http.proxy.pipelining" - Change the value to "True" by double-clicking it.
• Scroll to the entry- "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" - Change the value to "8" by double-clicking it. Not more than 8, because 8 is the max value allowed.
• Now, right-click anywhere and select New >> Integer., name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Now you might feel the difference.

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Where can I find websites that offer tutorials for teaching basic computer skills

I am volunteering for a non profit domestic violence shelter and many of the women who go through the shelter have no computer skills. Id like to put together a Intro to Basic computers one on one training sessions. I dont want reinvent the wheel by creating my own tutorial. Where can I find one already done that I can download and print for free?Where can I find websites that offer tutorials for teaching basic computer skills?
hp.com offer a lot of free training, (go to the Home and Office link and then click on free training) also in most of the courses you can download a pdf file for the course. Maybe you can contact hp and they will help you out to provide you with these training manuals, and maybe, maybe... they can give you some equipment to help the shelter. You never know. Good luck!Where can I find websites that offer tutorials for teaching basic computer skills?
This site has a list to some eBooks that cover basic computing topics:





http://manybooks.net/categories/COM





Just choose an eBook format, download and print it.
well if you have a dell than somewhere on it there is an application that you can watch or read that tells you alot about computers. then you can sift throught it and make a powerpiont presentation. that would be the easiest way to present it!

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