The basic stuff, like adding alt tags to images that have meaning and "skipnav", so readers can choose to skip directly to the content of a page without re-reading the navigation, are actually pretty straight forward to implement.
After you retrofit a site once, you'll find these things don't add much time as you incorporate them into the process the next time.
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The basic stuff, like adding alt tags to images that have meaning and "skipnav", so readers can choose to skip directly to the content of a page without re-reading the navigation, are actually pretty straight forward to implement.
After you retrofit a site once, you'll find these things don't add much time as you incorporate them into the process the next time.