One of our clients, asked for an "Accessible website", and he wanted to "know how much will it cost"?
So what does Accessibility means?
For example, text provided for Images and meaningfull names for Links, helps blind users using text-to-speech or text-to-Braille.
Big images and underlined links make it is easier for poor-sight and color blind users to notice and understand.
Many people navigate by keyboard only, because they cannot use a mouse, so anything should be navigable without a mouse, and no keyboard traps!
Flashing effects may cause seizures, and more...
Read more about it here
wikipedia/Web_accessibility
The The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) initiated the:
Web Accessibility Initiative-WAI
and published
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
After some research on the subject, we learnd that this is a very interesting and wide concept.
On top of the moralily of making websites accessible to disable people, Web Accessibility is primerly the interest of site owners, that for an extra cost of 10% for the cost of building a regular website, they can benefit:
- More visitors to the site
- Improved Usability, and less Churn rate
- Higher Google's rank
- Better image for the company
We also learned, that Drupal is perfect for Web accessibility
Have a Question about Web accessibility ? Want to build an accessible website ? contact us
