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Re: Examples of peripheral benefits of accessible design?

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From: Jake Joehl
Date: Jan 8, 2013 12:23PM

I can honestly say I have made a similar resolution. That being I'm
going to try and take a break from some other things, and read up on
WCAG, section 508 and hopefully learn more about accessibility as it
relates not only to online content, but also software in general.
Besides just overall curiosity about the subject, the website for my
volunteer job is being reÞsigned and I'm testing for accessibility.
I feel very confident with the basics, i.e., everything needs to be
readable and navigable with assistive technology. But beyond that I'm
pretty clueless, lol!
Jake

On 1/8/13, Sharron Rush < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Greetings all and Happy New Year!
>
> I have made a resolution in 2013 to work hard to bring digital
> accessibility out of the sidelines and into the mainstream of web and
> application design and development. To that end, I volunteer for the
> Education and Outreach Working Group of WAI at the W3C. We are in
> the process of compiling examples of ways in which accessibility
> considerations, made early in a project life cycle, can provide
> additional benefits.
>
> My one example is a utility company that we worked with. Their
> commitment to accessibility for the previous 5 years really paid off
> well for them when launching their mobile site. Many of the features
> they implemented for accessibility made the pages and applications
> more flexible and easier to render on mobile devices with much less
> grief. But I bet there are good examples of SEO improvements from
> accessible media and others that would be great advocacy messages.
>
> Does anyone else have examples they can share? Please respond here
> or write to the <http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/>;WAI Interest Group or post
> directly to the
> <http://www.w3.org/community/wai-engage/wiki/Promoting_web_accessibility#Business_Case_Examples>;WAI
>
> Engage
> wiki<http://www.w3.org/community/wai-engage/wiki/Promoting_web_accessibility#Business_Case_Examples>;
>
> at the W3C. Thanks in advance.
>
> Onward!
> Sharron
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sharron Rush | Executive Director | www.Knowbility.org | 512 305-0310
> Equal access to technology for people with disabilities
> > > >


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