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Over 1 million US adults over the age of 40 are legally blind. [1] Statistic from Prevent Blindness survey
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Roughly 21 million US adults stated they either "have trouble" seeing or that they are blind. [2] Statistic from National Health Interview Survey Preliminary Report (2011)
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As of April 2014, there are over 958,919,789 websites on the internet available to the general public. [3] Statistic from http://news.netcraft.com article
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Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
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In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. [5] Wikipedia article on Section 508
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Unfortunately, this requirement only holds said agencies to the standards outlined in Section 508. However when thought about early, simple adjustments to HTML source code can make all websites accessible.
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This website serves as an introductory guide for developers to make their websites most accessible to persons with visual impairments with respect to Section 508.
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Here you will find guidelines for working with general HTML structure, links, images, and graphs.