To be as successful as possible your website needs to reach as many of your users as possible - and in many circumstances, this also includes users who are visually impaired in some way - therefore a fully accessible website is imperative. Your website may have a legal responsibility to ensure that disabled users can access your site too.

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!