Accessibility is now a legal requirement for websites
The result of a website failing the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act is that people:
- are not able to see the text easily enough to read some, or all of it.
- cannot hear complete sentences from a voice reader.
- cannot jump from one heading to another to find relevant information.
- cannot navigate to another page.
- are not able to know what the image is showing.
- cannot work out what the information is showing when displayed in tables.
Your website must be designed to present well on mobile devices
There are a whole host of mobile devices which have very different ways of interpreting style information and it must be said, many are very maverick at this.
Also a lot of mobile phones do not have a pointing device (mouse) which makes sideways scrolling very difficult or impossible.
So potentially you could be excluding a high percentage of potential customers from your website, which obviously does not make good business sense.
Obviously, a website must also display well on desktops and laptops and look good.
A high percentage of websites do not meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
The majority of all the web creation (authoring) software cannot produce accessible websites.
See ‘Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility’ written by W3C The Web Accessibility Initiative. [1]
Even when the top professional web creation packages are able to create accessible websites, it is up to the experience of the designer to complete the task.
[1] ‘Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility’