Making a site disability friendly

[Flying Low]

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I have been asked to look into ways to make an online shipping site more disability friendly / accessible while at the same time not detracting from the look and feel of the site.

Please could you point me in the right direction for this? Any stories on how you have been able to achieve this simply would be of great help.

Thanks all!

[Wickham]

Here is an accessibility validator:-
http://www.miislita.com/searchito/accessibility-validator.html
Test your web page at intervals as you construct it.

The main items are:-
to allow a viewer to enlarge text without the text overlapping other text or images
to add alt descriptions to images so that a viewer knows what it shows if he can't see it properly
leave plenty of space in input boxes
make sure that font color is very different from background-color

There are plenty more items to consider, read the items in the above link.

More advice here:-
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/