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Does your nonprofit website’s HTML validate?

September 4, 2008 By 2 Comments

Over the past year I’ve struggled to get the Baptcare website to validate when tested against http://validator.w3.org/. My problem was the complexity of the IBM WebCM content management system that powers the Baptcare website and figuring out how to understand and edit its presentation templates, menus and navigation files. But today I finally got the www.baptcare.org.au website to [...]

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Give your website a health check: 8 quick tests

November 5, 2007 By 6 Comments

Is your charity’s website well-designed and does it perform as well as it should? Here are eight simple tests to help you find out. None of these tests require you to understand web design but you may need to go back to your web designer to resolve any problems that you find. First, let’s check your site’s code for errors.

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Accessible websites: US court decisions

October 5, 2007 By 4 Comments

Blind people can use software to read aloud the content from websites but only if those websites are designed properly. A federal court judge in California has issued two landmark decisions against the Target Corporation, a retail company, because their website was inaccessible to blind people.

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