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By: Nasir Mehmood, Thu Apr 5th, 2007
Web accessibility is all about making a website accessible to all people, regardless of ability or disability. The most common myth about accessibility is that it is for the disabled people only. No doubt it covers the disabled but not all about them. This belief is wide-spread because not everyone is aware of all the browsing technologies. Anyone who accesses the web is not necessarily using latest browser available or all the available plug-ins. Therefore when any website is not providing any alternative to these user groups, it is not accessible to all internet users. With millions of people going online everyday the potential for your business is almost unbelievable. However, the great challenge is creating an environment that is positive, effective, and accessible to all of your potential clients.
With more and more countries around the world passing laws about blind and disabled access to the Internet like DDA (Disability Discrimination Act), RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) and the DRC (Disability Rights Commission) and the Disability Discrimination Act in the UK web accessibility has been thrown into the spotlight of the online community.
The internet is one of the best things that ever happened to people with disabilities. For example most newspapers now publish their content online in a format that has the potential to be read by "screen readers" used by the blind. These software programs read electronic text out loud so that blind people can use computers and access any text content through the computer. Despite the web's great potential for people with disabilities, this potential is still largely unrealized. For example, some sites can only be navigated using a mouse, and only a very small percentage of video or multimedia content has been captioned for the Deaf.
Some fundamental steps you can take to make your website accessible to everyone:
1) Make sure all of your relevant and core content is in text-based format.
2) Make sure your images have alt tags that say what they are. If someone is using a Braille display to view the web, untagged images show up as a large blank space that could easily be interpreted as the end of the content.
3) Try changing your setting to quickly view your site in black and white. This is an option that people with color blindness in any degree often use so they can avoid missing valuable content.
Nasir Mehmood is a Senior Web Marketing Executive at MechTechnologies .
MechTechnologies is a professional web design company that offers affordable custom web site design and development. You can view our portfolio HERE
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