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Many webmasters, web designers and inexperienced or unethical Search Engine Optimizers (SEOs) abuse the use of this attribute, trying to stuff it with keywords, hoping to achieve a certain keyword density, which is not as relevant for rankings now as it once was.

On the contrary, high keyword density can, on some search engines, trigger spam filters, which may result in a penalty for your site’s ranking. Do you want that? Even without such a penalty, your site’s rankings will not benefit from this tactic.

Do you use your the alt attribute for your images with care?

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Checking the spelling of the text on your web site is very important; to ensure good content accessibility and readability for your readers, and better crawlability and indexing for search engines.

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This tutorial shows you fairly quick and easy steps you can take to increase the accessibility of your web site. But these are just a sample of accessibility recommendations. But you will find there resources which offer much more extensive information.

An accessible HTML version of Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, a 696 Pages Book, will shortly be available to purchasers of the printed version. Highly recommended by the Webnauts Net. More details.

“The 25 EC member states and nine accession countries have all signed up to a new inclusion plan that could make accessibility in e-procurement mandatory.

The 34 countries all signed an agreement in Riga yesterday, committing themselves to the ‘internet for all’ action plan, designed to ensure the most web-disadvantaged groups can get online.”

With a rollout of web accessibility standards slated for 2010, what type of impact will this really have for increasing awareness and accessibility in the countries affected?

Read the whole story at Silicon.com

The A List Apart article, High accessibility Is Effective Search Engine Optimization, by SEO consultant Andy Hagans, is another source that points out how high accessibility overlaps heavily with effective SEO. Citing individual checkpoints of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Andy points out how each of these affects SEO.

Though created nearly three years ago by the Sydney Web Standards Group, the web-based slide show, Google and Accessibility, is still just as relevant today. Providing good examples of “Do’s” and “Dont’s” this set of guidelines does a wonderful job of making things simple to understand for any webmaster or developer. Simiply put, Google likes accessible pages. If you keep accessibility in mind when creating a site, Google will be able to catalog your site much more easily than if you hadn’t.

Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee expressed his views on the importance of web standards and accessibility, among other aspects of the World Wide Web’s future during the 15th International World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday, the 24th of May. The article Berners-Lee applies Web 2.0 to improve accessibility gives a brief synopsis of his comments. Great reading for anyone interested in the aspect of Accessibility as it relates to the Internet.

We have all experienced it before while browsing the web. You click on a link, and immediately, a new browser window opens to contain the page you were linking to. Why couldn’t it have stayed in the window you were using? It turns out that there are some very good reasons why links should not open in new windows. Read the article Avoid forcing to open in a new window on Webnauts Net to learn more about this issue.