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Afraid I don't agree with it being a "daunting task" to make a web site accessible. I "retrofit" non-profit web sites to meet 508+ as a volunteer and train their volunteers in the basics of keeping the site compliant. The points are clear and easy to do. It's this fear of a big project, lots of time and money that keep many businesses from doing
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Contribute is a good suggestion. I'm not familiar with older versions, but for newer versions it's easily set to always get the files from the server, and that hasn't been a problem for the organizations I know who've used it. Most of these people tend to use the Contribute button in the browser window. You go to your page you want to
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Just an FYI - When it comes to resolution, especially for non-profits, your research on your users should drive your minimum resolution, not what's most common. I've done a lot of work and some applications for schools, school organizations, etc. What we found was that we needed to go down to 800 resolution for the secretaries and lower level
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Unfortunately I was a consultant/contractor at a privately held corporation , so the report isn't available. I will lok through the Nielsen white papers and see if he has any similar research.
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I also use Google alerts and find them invaluable. I do want to point out that they can't be used as the only means to monitor information about your company posted on the web. Google sends the information as they "spider" and that doesn't necessarily mean the minute it's posted... I've run across this issue on some of my contracts where
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FYI - Meta-tags are also still a requirement to meet full Accessibility. You need the big three Title, Description and Key Words along with the language tag at the minimum.
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We use analytics to track effectiveness of emails simply by setting up instant redirect pages. If they click the link in the email it redirects seamlessly to the page they're going to but through a page that only the email uses. And that page of course has the Google Analytics code on it. It certainly isn't as in-depth a tracker, and doesn't
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Yes, I've been involved with market research that part included a splash screen. Personally I don't like them in most cases and was surprised that the research showed that some users do like them. But, what they generally liked was a splash page that included some interactivity. Users will wait for it if it has a "punch line", a poll, a question
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Since it's already been decided to launch using a Splash screen, I assume some kind of marketing research has been done? The reason i ask, is that market research should drive the facets of your splash screen. If your majority of users are elderly, then you need to be sure to use high contrast, large text and be sure that it fits on a 17 inch monitor
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There are a few coding issues with your site that should be fixed, but the main one on your home page is the inadvertent addition of a repeated block of code that shouldn't be there. You could remove the second instance of this for a quick fix, though it's not a complete fix: <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header"><