Can Everyone See & Fully Appreciate Your Website?

Web Accessibility insures that everyone can view the contents of your web site and appreciate the entire experience. What at first seems simple and easy becomes more complex when you consider the various ways that content can be displayed, viewed and transmitted.

Have you ever asked yourself:

What if the visitor to my web site is colorblind?
What if the visitor only partially sighted or visually impaired?
Is my information easily seen and read?
Is information still conveyed clearly to visitors with other disabilities?

The solving of these issues is what accessibility is all about.

Web Accessibility Laws & Legislation

Any number of laws and statues exist that govern accessibility in the United States (Section 508) and worldwide. Much of this legislation not only concerns online accessibility but also accessibility in many areas of life.

Section 508

Section 508 governs accessibility in the US. It allows all individuals including those with disabilities access to information technology: including text-only pages (helping people with visual disabilities) and usability for people that are visually impaired such as alternative keyboard navigation.

This also assures accessibility to your web page graphics using assistive technology such as screen readers and refreshable Braille displays (this is accomplished by using text labels and descriptors for graphics).

Benefits of Accessibility compliance

Provides equal access and opportunity to people with disabilities
Allows them to perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with your web site
Helps older people with changing abilities to interact with your web site and access your services
Allows color blind people to read your content easily, avoiding problems distinguishing between words and background.

An accessible web means individuals with disabilities can actively participate like the rest of us.