To be a success your website needs to reach as many of your users as possible - and in some circumstances, this also includes users who are visually impaired in some way. Therefore a fully accessible website is imperative. Your website also has a legal responsibility to ensure that disabled users can access your site too.
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Interestingly - if you build your site so that it is accessible for disabled users - search engines tend to like it more and there are many other business benefits to this too. We cover a few below;
So, why make Websites accessible?
- iPhones, PDAs and mobiles often do not support big images, Flash and JavaScript.
- it will help you to make your websites more 'future proof' for other browsers that will be released in the future
- some browsers don't support ActiveX, Flash etc.
- accessible websites often appear higher in search engine rankings
- not everyone has Broadband
- some users will access your website with a screen reader or text only browser
- it will help users who have a visual disability or colour blindness
- it will cater for users who can't use a mouse as a 'pointer'
- users may find if difficult to see very small text so fonts need to be adjustable
If you feel that a fully accessible website is what you're after - please just let us know!