Article Submission Guidelines
Before submitting an article please ensure that you've carried out the following simple steps:
- Ask yourself if the article you're submitting is really about web accessibility. This may seem like an obvious one, but we've had some strange submissions in barely passable English that had little to do with accessibility.
- Check to see what articles or tutorials are already on the site. You can do this by checking the articles page, or use the search facility. If your idea is not already covered, then read on
- Aim to keep the article under 1200 words. But don't bust a gut trying to stick to word count - this is just an indicator
- If your article requires images, please zip them up and send them to Accessify at 'accessify AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk'. Make a note of the images being separately in your summary.
- Try to keep the summary under 150 words - treat it as an abstract. This may be edited down even further in the index page.
- Keep the biography short also - you can tell us a little bit about what you do, and naturally you'll get a link back. If you want to tell the world that outside of the world of accessibility, you also have a penchant for collecting waffle-makers or whatever, then that's fine - we like to know about the real you also!
- You may include HTML in the article, but please use only the following
tags:
- <h1>, <h2>, <h3>
- <blockquote>
- <p>, <br>, <div>, <span>
- <a href> [please ensure links to external articles have a target attribute of "_blank"]
- <code></code> for all code examples, wrapped around
<pre></pre> tags, e.g.
- <code>
- <pre><h1>This is a heading</h1>
- <p>This is a paragraph.</p></pre>
- </code>
- Do not use CSS classes or ids in your HTML tags (except in code examples)
- Please don't submit articles that have not
- been spell-checked
- been checked for grammar
- been checked for technical accuracy (kind of a biggie, this one)
- been proof-read on paper. It's amazzzing how eeasy it is to make smelling pistakes if you only proofreed off screen (irony intentional).
- Finally, remember that you are writing for the web, not for print, so be as clear and concise as possible.
- And finally (no, we mean it this time, really), bear in mind that the more you stick to these guidelines, the less we have to edit and re-work, and therefore the quicker your piece gets published.
- We can't think of anything else pressing - no point being too onerous about this, after all!
OK, that's all - you can return to the submission page now.
