Articles

Welcome to the Articles Section of our website.  You can find articles on a range of topics including accessibility issues, updates to standards and guidelines, opinions, and cutting edge coding techniques and examples. 

Getting started, we have developed articles on Accessible PDFs and the issue of Web Site Accessibility Training.  We are developing a new article on the topic of Creating a CSS Layout from Scratch in Dreamweaver CS3 that will be posted soon.

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Featured Article

Does It Really Have to Be a PDF?

A great number of the PDF documents published on the web really shouldn't be PDFs at all.  Many of them should be html documents formatted with cascading style sheets, perhaps using PDF as an additional format.  There are far too many documents on the web that are published in only the PDF format. 

Any document on the web that is basic text and graphics using standard fonts should really be published as html and css.

In the opinion of many, PDFs are largely unnecessary; but, there are situations in which a document should be a PDF.  When these situations arise, it is the responsibility of the document author to make the PDF fully accessible...