What is Web Accessibility?

Web Accessibility is practice of making websites usable, to the full extent, by people of all abilities and disabilities.

Unfortunately most UK Internet pages are not accessible, as designers are often unaware of those accessibility standards, and they mostly aim to produce pretty pictures and effects, while making it very difficult for disabled users (about 8.5 million in the UK) to make a use of it.

Businesses and services lose a large section of potential customers through web inaccessibility (roughly about 20%), who have plenty of money to spend in their pockets. Additionally, those organisations put themselves in legal risks due to the recent DDA laws in the UK enforcing web accessibility.

You can find more information about a famous web accessibility lawsuit in the USA, by reading this article (http://www.out-law.com/page-6634) and another against the Sydney Olympics website (http://www.contenu.nu/socog.html)

For more information about web accessibility, please visit the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative website at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ or contact Sam at Webability Design to find out how accessible your website is.