Benefits of Accessibility
Why Make My Site Accessible?
There 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