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How Website Accessibility Affects Online Businesses In 2019 And How To Respond
Ryan Robinson
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Sep 25, 2019,11:49am EDT|
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In today’s digital world, ignoring the accessibility of your website all but guarantees losing … [+] customers to your competition, and can even open your business up to potential legal action.
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Web accessibility and ensuring your content can be consumed by all people, is one of the most important issues facing online businesses today. Yet still, it remains surprisingly under the radar amongst many brands, particularly with SMBs. Because of this, many small business owners don’t fully understand what the term actually means.
No, web accessibility doesn’t mean ensuring that everyone has access to the Internet (though that’s an important issue, too). Web accessibility refers to ensuring that all online content can be readily consumed by people with disabilities.
Established brick and mortar companies generally command a firm understanding of how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) affects their [...]
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