Testing with your Hardware

There are several things you can do to test web pages using your hardware:

Use your system's control panels to test different display sizes and colours.
Set your monitor to gray-scale (if it has colour adjustments).
If the page uses multimedia sound or video clips, turn off your speakers and see if you can still get the important content on your site.
Use a modem set at 28.8kbps to view your web pages. Often people do all their testing on their local computer, and don't realize that the pages take 35 minutes to download on a modem.
Try navigating your web pages without using a mouse. (In Netscape and MSIE use [tab] to move between links).

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