Web accessibility news

Web accessibility involves making websites available to people of all abilities and disabilities. How websites are designed, developed and edited can influence the extent to which they can be accessed by all users; poor design and development of a website can restrict equal access to information and functionality. A core technique for accessible web design is providing text equivalents for images and creating meaningful descriptions of links which can help blind users using text-to-speech software or text-to-Braille hardware. Sites that are correctly built can help all users without impairing the experience of non-disabled site visitors. Accessible design, coding and copywriting of websites can also have a positive impact on the performance of sites in search engine rankings.