Why is web site accessibility so important?

Why is web site accessibility so important you might ask? Follow this link to read more on what happened with Target: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080828-target-to-pay-6-million-to-settle-site-accessibility-suit.html

So do you think accessibility is important? I believe it is. Not just for the company's sake, but for those who are disabled or impaired in some way.

Web Accessibility really isn't that hard to learn or apply to your web pages. Most of the time if you follow Web Standards your site should be accessible. But there are a couple more tricks on top of Web Standards that need to be applied or well thought out when designing and developing a web site. WebAIM is a good place to learn more about accessibility.

Test your site to see if it meets accessibility needs.

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