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Rhetorically Speaking:
The Role of Rhetoric in Web Design

To make my website more accessible, I began by adding "alt" tags to all of my non-textual elements, including my logo, author image, and table image. I then added the Dublin Core metadata set to my header. After those basic tasks were completed, I went through the Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and began fixing any of the problematic features I found on my site. I adjusted some contrast issues, changing my header a light grey rather than cyan (which now provides better contrast against the light blue background texture) and changing the color of my div borders to a dark charcoal to increase the contrast and visibility of the dilineations between elements and content sets. After a little bit of struggling, I was finally able to incorporate an "invisible" skip navigation button using CSS: the skip navigation button is the first element in my header and will be only accesible to those tabbing through the page or using screen readers and will stay invisible to sighted/regular viewers, thus providing accesibility without ruining the aesthetics of my design.