Benefits Of An Accessible Website: Part 1 - Increase In Reach
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Some organisations are making accessibility improvements to their websites- but many are seemingly not making the accessibility adjustments. Disabled people don/' t access their website- they say- so why should they care?
Why you should care about disabled Internet users
The statistics on the number of users who may face difficulties due to your website/' s accessibility are quite startling:
* There are 8.6 million registered disabled people in the UK - 14% of the population (source: DRC)
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* One in 12 men and one in 200 women have some form of colour blindness - 9% of the UK population (source: Institution of Electrical Engineers)
* Two million UK residents have a sight problem - 4% of the population (source: RNIB)
* There are 12 million people aged 60 or over - 21% of the UK population (source: UK government)
Although there is inevitably some overlap between the aforementioned groups- adding up these numbers provides a total of 48% of the UK population that could potentially face problems with your website/' s accessibility. That/' s an extraordinarily high number.
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It/' s not just disabled users who can/' t access your website
Non-disabled people may also experience difficulties with your website/' s accessibility. Not everyone is viewing your website on the latest version of Internet Explorer- with all the plug-ins and programs that you may require them to have for optimal access.
If your website relies on images- Flash or JavaScript- and fails to provide alternatives- then your website won/' t be accessible to a number of web users. The following examples are a common occurrence:
* Users on slow connections regularly turn images off to enable a quicker download time. Some browsers- such as the text-only Lynx browser do not display images at all.
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* Not every user has downloaded the latest Flash program that/' s needed to access your site. Additionally- the download time on Flash websites often takes so long that users lose patience and don/' t even wait to see the content. Just 25% of web users in the UK are connected to the Internet via broadband (source: National Statistics).
* JavaScript is a scripting language that can cause changes to a page- often through mouse functions- buttons- or other actions from the user. For example- pop-ups are opened using JavaScript. JavaScript is unsupported by about 5% of web users- either because they have turned it off to prevent pop-up adverts or because their browser doesn/' t support it (source: The Counter). Any JavaScript-driven content provided on your website won/' t be accessible to these users.
* PDAs- mobile phones and WebTV have limited support for large images- Flash and JavaScript. You can test your website by downloading the free WebTV viewer. You can also check how your website looks on a mobile phone with the Wapalizer. Don/' t underestimate the importance of this: in 2008 alone an estimated 58 million PDAs will be sold (source: eTForecast) and one third of the world/' s population will own a wireless device (source: ClickZ)
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