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Accessibility
Approximately 20% of all internet users have some kind of disability. With those numbers, you᾿d think that companies everywhere would be bending over backwards to make sure their sites were accessible to all visitors. And yet, most web sites make no accommodations for the disabled.
“It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.”
That’s why Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act makes it illegal for government web sites to be inaccessible to people with visual, hearing, physical, or cognitive disabilities. Section 508 and the WAI provides guidelines and best practices for developing accessible web sites.
Not just for the disabled
We believe that your web site should be available to the widest possible audience. Not only does this include users with fast connections and computers, but also users with slow internet connections and/or poor computer monitors.
It’s good business
It’s simply good business to have an accessible web site. After all, why turn away one out of every five visitors?
Oh, and did we mention search engines? Accessible web sites are also available to the biggest blind user on the Internet - Google. Google and other search engines send out spiders (also known as “bots”) to read your site’s content and add it to their databases. These spiders are blind and don’t care what your site looks like. Non-accessible web sites have far less searchable text and therefore do not rank well in search results.
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