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Web accessibility is about making your Website accessible to all Internet users (both disabled and non-disabled), regardless of what browsing technology they're using.
- Your web site will be compatible with new browsing technologies.
PDAs and mobile phones are fast becoming a viable vehicle to access the Internet. According to eTForecasts 58 million PDAs will be sold in 2008 alone.
The people making use of these new technologies are generally high-income individuals, how can you afford to lose out to this lucrative audience?
- Your web site will appear higher in search engine rankings.
By making a web site more accessible to web users, you also make it more accessible to search engines. Search engines can't understand images, JavaScript, Flash, audio, or video content. Providing alternative content to each of these will give search engines a better understanding of the purpose of the web site.
- The download time of your web site will be significantly improved.
Using accessibility techniques can greatly improve the quality of the code behind your pages reducing the actual size of the page which, in turn, will reduce the time to download your page. Nothing loses your visitors quicker than a page that takes longer than about 10 seconds to load.
- Websites become easier to manage.
Keeping a web site updated can be difficult and time consuming. Using professionals can be very expensive. With standards such as CSS, content and layout is controlled seperately, increasing the readability of the code. Techniques such as using a content management system become viable alternatives to updating your own web site.
- You will improve your site's reach.
Accessibility allows people with disabilities to access your site. According to the Disability Rights Commission there are 9.8 million disabled people in Britain (correct as of May 2005), according to the book Colour Blindness by Donald McIntyre, 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women are colour blind, according to RNIB, 2 million people have sight problems and the UK government state that there are 12 million people over the age of 60.
This is a huge amount of people that could have problems viewing a web site. Accessible web sites overcome this by supporting techniques designed for assistive technology.
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