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Make Your Application Accessible with Accerciser

You might think you need to be familiar with assistive technologies like the Orca screen reader to determine whether your application is accessible. The truth is that with just a couple simple rules and an open-source tool called Accerciser, the task at hand is fairly simple.
Before you start diagnosing your application with specialized tools like Accerciser, you should ask yourself a few straightforward questions about your application.. more...

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