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Standard savings; accessibility: do as we say, not as we do

ESPN.com redesigned its homepage a while back, and now uses CSS to lay the page out. Given its size, a lot of people took notice including Eric A. Meyer who interviewed ESPN.com’s associate art director Mike Davidson about the process. The second half of the interview appears this Friday.

One great tidbit: the reduction of the file size (down 50 KB) will save an estimated 730 terabytes of bandwidth per year.

DevEdge has also published a series of resources designed to help push the case for standards from a business perspective.

Ironic site of the day. (Although screen readers can handle it, almost none of HTML’s accessibility features have been implemented.)