So What Is the Verdict?

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Congratulations if you’ve made it this far. I’m sure it wasn’t easy (although I kind of hope it was). Hopefully, some of the clutter and confusion of the web accessibility guidelines has been resolved, and you are now in a better position to tackle any web accessibility issues that come from bad or not-as-well-informed design decisions.

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    It could be worse. I could have actually used Comic Sans.

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Georgakas, D. (2023). So What Is the Verdict?. In: A11Y Unraveled. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9085-9_13

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