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Friday, November 18, 2005

Week 11, 10 Reasons of Don't Care about accessibility

Accessibility is regarded as being a part of the general issue of usability. Usability is the design of navigation, content and structure so that all users can carry out tasks effectively. Accessibility is very important that many people may think the web site should not accessibility. That concept is wrong. It is because increasing the accessibility of your online communications will increase sales if you have something to sell, increase audience reach, improve search engine rankings, reduce loads on the server and reduce load on server bandwidth. The following is the reasons of Don't Care about accessibility.

Reason 1: It’s the Law But There’s None to Follow
Reason 2: There Is No Immediate Benefit
Reason 3: Accessibility Is Sold As a Technical Problem
Reason 4: Disability Is Not Something Clients Want to Think About
Reason 5: We’re Past Inventing, We’re Maintaining
Reason 6: It Is Not Part of the Testing Methodology
Reason 7: Accessibility Seems Like a Party Pooper
Reason 8: Nobody Complains
Reason 9: It Requires Involvement
Reason 10: There Is No Leader to Follow

Summary
Web accessibility is most important thing with disabilities and achieve strong usable websites. It is fundamental to the creation of a better Internet. The disabled people maybe your customer. If you can serve the disabled people, you will increase your market share and the competitiveness

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