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Having a site that is user friendly is not only good for the visitor it's very good business sense. It's not just about achieving the highest accessibility rating you can it's about making sure your site meets all of your visitors needs.
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This in turn means making sure you look at the site and the user experience from the visitor's perspective.
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The reason accessibility is so important is because it allows any visitor regardless of their physical impediments access to your content. Many disabled and visually impaired visitors will not use a conventional browser but an audio browser or other variant that specifically meets their needs. This means that for them to access the content of a site, the information needs to be presented in a suitable way.
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Technical considerations for good accessibility
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Web site accessibility means allowing visitors to access the content without impediment. These define technical and presentation issues such as:
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By using more advanced programming techniques such as "drop down" menus and other dynamic techniques, a barrier can be placed between the visitor and the content. Not only can these techniques represent a usability issue to able bodied users they can present an impenetrable barrier to less enabled visitors.
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However, there are other good practice techniques such as making links meaningful rather than the ubiquitous "click here" as audio browsers speak the links.
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Key benefits of implementing good accessibility practices
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Apart from being a "best of breed" site and being legally compliant there are key practical benefits of implementing good web site accessibility practices:
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- You are allowing a greater number of people access to your products and services, after all why prevent people parting with their cash. It makes good business sense especially if your site can be more accessible than your competitors.
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- By making your content accessible you remove technical barriers to your content which makes it much easier to re-purpose your content to other platforms such as mobile phones, television and handheld devices
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How to improve your site
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Any reputable experienced web developer will be able to provide a web site accessibility audit to determine how to make your site compliant including:
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