3% of the web is considered accessible, meaning users even with very mild disabilities encounter problems using the internet. Making sure your website follows Accessibility guidelines is already extremely important and will be more so as we enter 2025.
What are Accessibility guidelines
Web accessibility is the process of making a website more usable by people with disabilities. This can include things like making your website easier to see or hear, or making it easier to use with a keyboard or mouse.
There are many disabilities that can be affected by web accessibility:
- Blindness or sight-impairedness
- Colour blindness
- Astigmatism
- Deafness or hearing loss
- Neurological conditions, like cerebral palsy
- Physical disabilities, like paralysis
How Seriously Should You Take Accessibility Compliance?
In late 2023 in order to meet Accessibility compliance we stopped developing websites the way we had always made them. We discarded many of our existing software tools, invested in a best-in-class fully compliant Accessibility framework, and basically spent many hours re-skilling ourselves up to be the best that we could possibly be.
