Are you preventing hundreds of people from opening your web pages?  Can
everyone who accesses your web page understand its content and navigate to
the other pages on your site?

HTML code has features built into it that will make it easy for people with
disabilities to read your pages and navigate your site.  Are you using
them?  Graphics add life to a page, but without the alt-text tag, a blind
user is only told that there is an image there.  If you use pics for links,
the blind user may be confronted with a screen that says: link link link
link link and have no idea what these link to.  The same is true for anyone
using a text only browser hitting on your site.

If you have added sound to your pages, did you include captions for deaf
web serfers?

Are your pages splattered with small and crowded buttons?  If so, someone
with poor eye-hand coordination will have trouble.

EASI Equal Access to Software and Information provides an online workshop
on how to design web pages for universal access.  The workshop is given by
the web and by email.  It runs for between 4-6 weeks, and, if you can use
them, it will provide you with 3 continuing education units from the
Rochester Institute of Technology.

For details on the August 3 workshop including registration fees, syllabus
and registration information, go to
http://www.rit.edu/~easi/workshops.html
Norman Coombs
Chair of EASI