What is Accessibility?
Accessibility in a nutshell is making sure your website/application is built in a manner that works not just for the general public but for people with disabilities as well.
The word “disability” here is very broad and includes people with all kinds of disabilities including but not limited to people who may have a vision problem or folks who have a motor disability, color blindness, hearing impairment, and others.
For the sake of moving everyone in the same direction and there are a set of guidelines laid out to make your website accessible. These guidelines can be followed by website owners, developers, designers, content creators, and everyone else who contributes towards building and maintaining a website.
Why is Website Accessibility important?
Well, it’s important because of so many reasons. First and foremost the government bodies around the globe are pushing to make sure online content is accessible for all and there are huge fines for businesses not complying with these laws.
But, more importantly, it’s about ethics and values and treating everyone equally. It’s about making sure that people with disabilities don’t have to rely on others to do simple things as far as reading a webpage and can have their own self-dignity.
It’s about leaving no one behind and having equal opportunity for everyone regardless of their ability to do things.