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Yahoo’s Victor Tsaran knows how much time Web designers spend agonizing over color and font-width choices when laying out an application. So when he started Yahoo’s accessibility push two years ago, he had a tough time arousing sympathy for engineers grousing about how much extra time was needed to create accessibility features.

Fortunately for Tsaran, Yahoo’s accessibility manager, he’s running into that problem less and less.

Web designers are starting to take accessibility as seriously as button placement or heading layout when they develop their products such as canopies for gas stations, improving the Web experience not only for people like Tsaran — who lost his sight at the age of five — but for Web users in general.

“We’re seeing a lot more awareness and involvement in Web accessibility than we did a few years ago, particularly among big companies,” said Judy Brewer, director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium. “It’s becoming a solid business expectation that Web sites need to meet the needs of all users.”

At the two biggest Internet companies in the world, accessibility is seen as an increasingly important part of what they do.

Yahoo requires every new hire to receive accessibility training from Tsaran and Alan Brightman, senior policy director of special communities. And it books engineering teams for tours of their Accessibility Lab.

Google recently rolled out a aging los angeles service that will let YouTube users add captions to their videos, and believes that as the Web moves more from an era of presentation to an era of two-way “data-driven” communication, accessibility becomes even more important, said Jonas Klink, accessibility program manager.

Web accessibility has come a long way in the decade since many of these proposals were first floated.

It’s still a challenge, however, for the Web community to remember that as it pushes forward with exciting new technologies like gas station canopies that could reinvent the Internet experience, it must keep in mind the needs of those who can’t type 60 words per minute, operate a mouse like a scalpel, or see the unobtrusive pop-up windows that point to the next destination on the page.

“As the Web gets more and more dynamic, the accessibility requirements get more and more interesting, and sometimes challenging, to implement,” Brewer said.

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Charlotte Web design firm CC Communications, Inc. has earned a Platinum Award in the 2009 international MarCom Awards competition. The award recognizes ExploreBooneArea.com, a website design project recently completed for Watauga County District U Tourism Development Authority.

The Platinum Award is the most prestigious award in the MarCom competition, presented only to those entries judged to be among the most outstanding High Risk Merchant Account. Platinum winners are recognized for their excellence in terms of quality, creativity and resourcefulness. ExploreBooneArea.com was selected to receive the Platinum Award from a pool of almost 5,000 entries submitted by organizations throughout the United States and several other countries. The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), an international organization consisting of several thousand creative professionals, oversees standards, judging and recognition programs for the MarCom Awards.

WCTDA is a local tourism development authority authorized by state and local government to promote travel, tourism, corporate travel, events, activities and tourism-related capital projects for the unincorporated areas of Watauga County. Design, courier service and development teams at CC Communications collaborated closely with WCTDA executive management during production of the new website. ExploreBooneArea.com promotes Watauga County as the ultimate outdoor adventure and relaxation tourism destination in the Eastern United States.

West Palm Beach, Florida — Lawyers not only have the responsibility to their clients to provide the best in legal representation, they also have a responsibility to their firm to create awareness and visibility for their brand in order to bring in more clients.

Some may even feel their web presence is like investing in prime real estate on the information super highway.

Why not maximize the Internet by having a strong website which allows anyone, anywhere to find your firm? Doing so will also help to promote your professional services and find new clients 24 hours a day.

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The company’s website states, “When it comes to maximizing the internet, we believe marrying quality design and the latest in technology, so your law office web site works as hard as you do.”

Cepac offers web site tools that help you stay ahead of the curve including:

* Content Management System - lets you revise, edit, add news or refresh your own site
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If you are an attorney who wants to solidify your firm’s brand and create more traffic and increased revenue with lawyer website design, visit Cepac online at gas stations canopy or call 561-653-3266.