Making the Web Accessible

Web Accessibility’s approach is to enable users to understand, navigate, and interact any application or website with out any hassle or undergoing any specialized training. The broad goals of usability are:

1. Information should be present in clear and concise way.
2. Placement of the most impact element at right place so that user can leverage the maximum benefits.
3. Well organized website design and structure.
4. Any one with minimal expertise level should navigate application or websites easily.

Why website Accessibility required

Ever thought what happens when things are not reachable or accessible to us? It results in frustration and loss of valuable time to access that particular thing or some time we leave that thing. Same phenomenon is applicable to web. If the information on your website is not accessible to the visitors than chances of loosing potential clients are quite high.

Internet is getting loaded with lot of information in every single second and users are also increasing proportionally.  The web is accessed by people across the globe and some of them are suffering by various disabilities e.g Blindness, physical disability, problem with hearing etc and use certain accessing devices like browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari), Screen readers etc. It's very important tomake your website easily accessible for global audience.

Making your Website Accessible

Complying your website’s source code to the latest w3c standards plays a vital role in making your web pages Accessible. e.g some the html markups are deprecated and are not according to the latest web standards some of them are <b>, <i> and <u> tags used for making text bold, italics and under line respectively, now they are swapped by <strong>, <em> (<u> i.e underlines managed by css). There is no difference in visibility related aspects but in terms of usability they are all together different. The screen readers emphasis the text under <strong> tag and stress over it while reading for blind or user with less visibility, this really helps them to understand the importance of that particular text.

Read more for latest trends: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility

Website Accessibility Benefits

If your website is according to website accessibility guidelines, then you will definitely have an edge over others. Some of the benefits of the following website’s accessibility has been outlined below:

1. Increased your global audience
2. Increase your circle to global audience.
3. Better user experience, which means better conversion rates
4. Helps your website to rank well over major search engines.

We would love to hear your views, if you want to make your website usable, you may contact us anytime.