Accessibility
Why should you care about disabled Internet users?
- There are 8.6 million registered disabled people in the UK - 14% of the population (source: DRC)
- 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)
It's not just disabled users who can't access your website:
- Not everyone has The latest browser with the latest plug-ins.
- Not everyone has Flash or Java installed.
- Not everyone has JavaScript enabled.
- Not everyone has a fast internet connection so images may take much longer to load.
- Some browsers don't display images at all
- WebTV, mobile phones, and PDAs all have different ways of supporting (or not) images, Flash and JavaScript.
You can find out more about accessibility and the Web Accessibility Initiative at www.w3.org/wai
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