A comprehensive and easy to use guide to best practices: Web Accessibility Best Practices. The overview states the purpose as, The primary purpose of these HTML/XHTML Best Practices is to improve the accessibility of web resources at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign for students, faculty, staff, and the general public.
This work will be helpful to many more than just folks at UIUC.
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