Hey, My name is Christine Laikind. I am deaf. I am also an entrepreneur, running a digital marketing agency and virtual assistant service. I am also an advocate speaker – I talk about web accessibility. To the Web Design community. To small businesses. To nonprofit organizations. You may or may not have heard about web accessibility. Or Inclusive design. But anyone that has a website, web accessibility is becoming more important than ever. Why? Because, the Web and Internet as a whole is an increasingly important resource in many aspects of our life which includes: education, employment, government, e-commerce, health care, recreation, and so much more. An accessible web will help people with \u201cdifferent abilities\u201d (my term), the aging population (think baby boomers and upcoming generation X) and even those who are \u201ctemporarily disabled\u201d use the website \u2013 the way it is intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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