Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites
Chapter One
Introducing
the Site
In what has been a relatively short life to date, the Web has grown at a tremendous pace. When I
first started learning HTML, I would not have imagined that so many people would be using the
Web today. Nor, while sitting at my desktop PC, would I have imagined that by now I would need
to write pages that could be accessed through such a variety of devices-such as mobile phones
and TV set top boxes. These new devices are quite different from the desktop PC-they have differently
sized screens and different amounts of power and memory available to them, and they
enable users to access information in very different ways. Given the growth of the Web and the
way in which it has changed, it is hardly surprising that those of us who build Web sites might
need to update our skills, and that the tools we use to get the job done also need modernizing.
This chapter describes why it is important to learn to write sites using XHTML and CSS, and why
it is so important to make your sites accessible. You will also be introduced to the example site that
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