Although I am no web designer, I do know that a couple things are important in good design and accessibility is one of them. A good discussion of accessiblity can be found here, "Accessibility From The Ground Up" from Digital Web Magazine.

As the author Matt May starts out:

"Yes, Web accessibility is growing up. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 was released over five years ago, in May 1999. This year, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will release Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. WCAG is the international standard for Web accessibility, and the latest version contains plenty of guidance on how to produce modern, usable, and (dare I say it?) attractive Web sites."

In addition, the numerous comments on the article break down some of the challenges of trying to provide accessibility and the various audiences.
Thanks to KB for the pointer.

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