{"id":1497,"date":"2024-10-04T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cueforgood.com\/blog\/2007\/web-accessibility-matters\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:26:57","slug":"web-accessibility-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cueforgood.com\/blog\/web-accessibility-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Accessibility Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent news about <a title=\"Full News on ITworld.com dated Oct 4, 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/Tech\/2403\/071004targetblind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Target Corp getting sued over web accessibility<\/a>, webmasters are relooking at their websites and taking web accessibility standards a little more seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Long long time ago (Year 2005 is a long time ago when counting web years), we wrote an article on <a title=\"Article Link - Web Accessibility\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cueforgood.com\/articles\/uei\/website-accessibility-matters.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web Accessibility and Why it Matters<\/a>. It covers simple steps of making the site accessible and the reasons why we should do so.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to impress SEO, many webmasters end up focusing only on making the site SEO friendly and not user-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>A well designed and accessible website takes care of search engines and humans alike!<\/p>\n<p>Then why not add proper alt text to images, allows users to operate the website with a keyboard alone, give proper headings, use informative anchor texts and look for image map alternatives?<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that usually website owners don&#8217;t know about these requirements and the companies they hire don&#8217;t inform them. We need web development and design companies to be more responsible and the website owners to be more informed.<\/p>\n<p>Have a website that needs to be made Web Accessible? <a title=\"Link to our enquiry form\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cueforgood.com\/enquiry.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact us<\/a> now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent news about Target Corp getting sued over web accessibility, webmasters are relooking at their websites and taking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cueforgood.com\/blog\/web-accessibility-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Web Accessibility Matters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-usability-and-accessibility"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Web Accessibility Matters -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cueforgood.com\/blog\/web-accessibility-matters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Web Accessibility Matters -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With the recent news about Target Corp getting sued over web accessibility, webmasters are relooking at their websites and taking &hellip; 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