About Web Accessibility

What is web accessibility? This is a difficult question to answer, but my short answer is:

An accessible web page makes all pertinent content available to any person who wants it regardless of their abilities or browsing technology.

Web accessibility benefits more than people with a disability; keep in mind that a user may be situationally disabled, temporarily disabled or using less performant technology.

The W3C’s description says:

Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them.

Here is some terrific further reading:

• Introduction to Web Accessibility by WebAIM
• What is Web Accessibility? by Joe Dolson
• Web accessibility on Wikipedia
• Introduction to disability and accessibility by Microsoft