web content accessibility guidelines – American Alliance of Museums

10 Best Practices of Accessible Museum Websites

By Sina Bahram

This article explores ten high-impact areas you should consider to enhance your website’s accessibility and bring it into conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the set of rules and practices that aims to define …

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