Website Accessibility Primer
When website accessibility is mentioned the initial thought and focus of many is that your website needs to be usable by people with disabilities — specifically, people using screen readers.
While the above statement is true, website accessibility actually applies to a wider band of people and has benefits that include better search engine optimization and ensuring that your website is available on a multitude of devices. A better way to think of it is that you are enabling more people to use your website. Just think about that for a second… Why wouldn’t you want more people on your website?
If you’re interested in learning more about website accessibility here’s an informative, high level write-up that I recently found:
Understanding Web Accessibility
Among other things it includes advice on overcoming accessibility issues in existing sites and has a list of benefits from a business perspective, both of which can be invaluable.
