Over 28 million Americans either have low vision, visual-impairment or other cognitive disabilities.According to a 2006 U.S. Department of Commerce study 43% of all retail sales in the United States would take place online by the year 2012. Can you afford to ignore the potential market of nearly 43 million prospects?

The benefits of creating accessible web content are...

(1) They make it easier for those with disabilities to visit and use a web site without difficulty thus making them repeat visitors and into buying goods and services that may be offered. (2) They lend credibility to the organization that owns the site. In short it shows not only attention to detail but also being customer-oriented. (3) It leads to a more pleasant user-experience and builds loyalty. (4) Accessible web content also tend to be more search engine friendly thus ensuring good placement in search results in the final analysis.

One may ask why bother with accessible web content creation? The simple answer is accessibility is for everyone, young, old and those with disabilities. When it comes to  web accessibility you have to be proactive rather than reactive, Target Stores found out the hard way when initially a blind visitor named  Bruce F. Sexton Jr. of California asked them to make their site accessible to the blind visitors using screen readers. Target stores refused to make that accommodation and ultimately had to settle for $6 million in a class action law suit NFB vs Target on August 27th, 2008. NFB is the National Federation  of the Blind.

Compumagick Associates creates the following accessible web content. 1) Accessible HTML Pages.
(2) Conversion of Microsoft Office Word documents to accessible to accessible HTML. 3) Conversion of Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet to accessible to accessible HTML (4) Conversion of Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations to accessible HTML. (5) Accessible Microsoft Office Word Forms (6) Accessible Portable Document Format(PDF) Forms. (7) Accessible HTML Forms.

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