Benefits Of An Accessible Website: Part 1 – Increase In Reach
The DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) states that service providers must not discriminate against disabled people. A website is regarded as a service and therefore falls under this law, and as such must be made accessible to everyone.
Some organisations are making accessibility improvements to their websites, but many are seemingly not making the accessibility adjustments. Disabled people don’t access their website, they say, so why should they care?
Why you should care about disabled Internet users
The statistics on the number of users who may face difficulties due to your website’s accessibility are quite startling:
* There are 8.6 million registered disabled people in the UK – 14% of the population (source: DRC)
* One in 12 men and one in 200 women have some form of colour blindness – 9% of the UK population (source: Institution of Electrical Engineers)
* Two million UK residents have a sight problem – 4% of the population (source: RNIB)
* There are 12 million people aged 60 or over – 21% of the UK population...
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