Make Accessibility Mean More
Hamish Sherlock
May 16, 2019
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It's never too late to start making a difference.
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. What exactly does that mean? To the average person, not too much. To the average business, quite a bit. Over the past three years, an unprecedented number of federal website accessibility lawsuits have been filed against non-compliant organizations. While this has elevated the issue into new light, it has also positioned accessibility testing as a reactive measure rather than a proactive one.
While any progress regarding digital accessibility is a win in the grand scheme of things, organizations need to understand the value it holds beyond legal stability. Global Accessibility Awareness Day is as good a time as any to begin that education.
The True Value of Accessibility
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