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Since I just declared, in the discussion forum, that a non-accessible e-government website is primarily the fault of a lazy webmaster, let me discuss briefly how anyone (librarians included) can make a site accessible to print-disabled persons.

If you would like to look at a few full tutorials, this one is pretty good, and this one is ok, too, although more focused on webmasters from the UK.  

Another great site and a good example of a Javascript- and CSS-free site is Computers for Handicapped Independence Program.  The site, which looks like websites used to before fancy formatting, isn't plain because the authors were not artistic -- this is what a stripped-down site is like; these sites, made without extra formatting, are much easier for computer software to 'read' for the print-impaired.  So long as this is what a site looks like when the fancy stuff is disabled (Javascript and CSS), it's fine for the main site to look pretty.  It is only when site creators forget to make a good foundational site in favor of images and graphics that disabled users cannot access crucial content.