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An accessibility statement provides website visitors with information on how to utilize any accessibility features implemented on the website. This information usually presented on a dedicated page within the website.
As you all know accessibility is important for a website, but do you know the benefits of providing an accessibility statement? Many people ignore the accessibility statement, they do not bother on how it would be. So here, i will explain the benefits of providing an accessibility statement.
The first benefit of providing an accessibility statement is to demonstrate how to use accessibility features provided. By demonstrating how to use the accessibility features in a website, it empowers the website visitor to improve their browsing tactics. For instance, they may be interested in how to make the text size larger or find out information about making the website speak with a speech output program such as I speech. When explaining how to use accessibility features, it is often useful to reference websites that are provided for explaining the information.
The second benefit is to detail the known barriers in the websites. Despite best efforts, they may be areas of the website which are still inaccessible and this create conflict for people with disability. Therefore, a known barriers section within the accessibility statement will enable this information to be provided in front together with alternative ways of obtaining the information and services. This will most likely benefit people with disability.
Last but not least, the last benefit I will discuss is to provide a point of contact. Website visitors or readers who experience difficulties whilst browsing will benefit from dedicated accessibility contact information. For example, the query will go directly to the team responsible for the accessibility of the website. This will likely result in the query being dealt with quickly, efficiently, and to the satisfaction of the website visitor as well.
When there are benefits, definitely there will be problem. Stay tune with us for the coming post where we will talk about the common issue with accessibility statement.
