Accessibility Toolkit

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

What is web accessibility?

• An intelligent and inclusive approach to design
• Ensuring that everyone, regardless of disability, can access your website
• The right thing to do: from a moral, legal and business point of view

Web accessibility includes:

Web sites and applications
that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with

Web browsers and media players
that can be used effectively by people with disabilities, and that work well with assistive technologies that some people with disabilities use to access the Web

Web authoring tools, and evolving Web technologies
that support production of accessible Web content and Web sites, and that can be used effectively by people with disabilities.

Making your Web site accessible has the following benefits:

• Increases market share and audience reach
• Improves efficiency
• Demonstrates social responsibility
• Reduces legal liability