Get Bobby to test your site.
Bobby is a software tool designed to determine whether your site meets standards for accessibility. It looks for things like ALT text in your images, context irrelevent links (such as "Click Here"), text which is set apart based on color, and many other accessibility issues.
The best part is, Bobby is a free tool, which you can find here: Bobby: A comprehensive web accessibility software tool
Just type in your URL, and Bobby will tell you if you pass. If you don't pass (which you probably won't!) Bobby will tell you all the things that are wrong with your site. If you work hard enough, you can make your site entirely Bobby Approved, and you can get a little logo saying so.
Even if you don't want to take the time to make your site fully compliant, using Bobby and studying the results will help you get a much better idea of the problems disabled persons may have trying to access your site. At the very least, you should try to take care of the most glaring problems.
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