Article: The Secret Benefit Of Accessibility: Part 1 - Increased Usability

The Secret Benefit Of Accessibility: Part 1 - Increased Usability

Web accessibility has so many benefits that I really do wonder why such a large number of websites have such diabolically bad accessibility. One of the main benefits is increased usability, which according to usability guru, Jakob Nielson, can increase the sales/conversion rate of a website by 100% and traffic by 150%.



At which point you must surely be asking, ?So if I make my website accessible its usability will increase and I'll make more money out of it??. Well, not quite. An accessible website is not automatically more usable but there are many areas of overlap:



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Visually impaired web users can scan web pages by tabbing from link to link and listening to the content of the link text. As such, the link text in an acce...
 

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