Why You Should Bother with Website Accessibility

Website accessibility is an often overlooked, but vitally important part of effective website development.

Accessibility is essentially making sure that ALL users can consume the content on your website, even if they have disabilities (such as vision impairment) that could make it difficult.

3reasons to address accessibility on your website
To naturally improve your SEO
To avoid unnecessary Lawsuits
It’s the right thing to do.

7 practical ways to improve your website’s accessibility
Don’t use an accessibility overlay: shouldiuseanaccessibilityoverlay.com
WordPress Themes
Include alt text: Also, pictures of pictures and text of text
Don’t open links in new tabs
Website Form fields
Add an accessibility statement
Use #CamelCaseHashtags

Those might seem daunting so here is one small step to get started. Use the WAVE tool at wave.webaim.org to do an accessibility check of your website.

Episode show notes: www.greenmellenmedia.com/podcasts/website-accessib…