Benefits of Accessibility

Why Make My Site Accessible?

Two people at a computerThere are a number of reasons organizations decide to program their sites to comply with accessibility standards:

  • Meet web accessibility legal requirements
  • Increased reach to disabled and special needs users
  • Disabled and special needs users have spending power
  • Increased reach to different technologies used for accessing the Internet
  • Improved web page download times
  • Bandwidth savings
  • Cross-browser compatibility
  • Higher search engine rankings
  • Easier management
  • Web page print friendly