Accessibility – W3C – World Wide Web Consortium

The Web must be accessible to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with diverse abilities. Indeed, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes access to information and communications technologies, including the Web, as a basic human right.

Accessibility supports social inclusion for people with disabilities as well as others, such as older people, people in rural areas, and people in developing countries.

Accessibility also benefits people without disabilities. The Web Accessibility Perspectives video shows examples of how accessibility is essential for people with disabilities and useful for everyone in a variety of situations.

Illustration of a visually impaired young man using a laptop computer

Web Accessibility for the Visually Impaired

WordPress Pro Today assists users that have varying degrees of visual impairment by enhancing their browsing experience to best meet their needs and physical limitations. We do this by improving your site’s support for keyboard-only navigation, as well as enabling users to independently increase the contrast of contents on your site, increasing the font size, switching to a more readable font face, using a larger cursor, highlighting links, desaturating content (removing color from text and images), and more, based on their personal disability and preference.

Web Accessibility for the Elderly

With the WordPress Pro Today accessibility plugin we help elderly users overcome any senses that may have softened or deteriorated over time by allowing them to adjust the text size on your site, by highlighting clickable areas so they don’t get lost among the other content, by increasing the size of the mouse pointer and by using higher contrast colors. We do all of this via an intuitive and easy-to-understand plugin that will be unobtrusive to any users who don’t actually require it.

Web Accessibility for the Blind

With WordPress Pro Today, blind and visually impaired people on your site can finally become more independent and better integrate with the online world, which they so intimately depend on for their daily lives. Accessibility guidelines empower disabled users to more effortlessly deal with everyday tasks while helping make their handicap a little less of an obstacle.

WordPress Pro Today helps visually impaired and blind users have a more meaningful browsing experience on your website and thus a stronger connection with you and your business. While you’ll be more closely adhering to website accessibility standards as required by law, you may also enjoy increased ROI from providing a better experience to a broader user base.

Web Accessibility for the Mobility Impaired

Try abandoning your mouse for a couple of days and see what the experience is like navigating your company’s site.

WordPress Pro Today creates a simpler and more accessible browsing experience for users with mobility issues as well. Millions of people cannot use a mouse or other pointing device and rely solely on their keyboard to navigate websites. Your site should be fully navigable using a keyboard’s tab key, arrow keys, the enter key and the spacebar.

The WordPress Pro Today widget will make smart modifications to elements on your site that we identify as potentially non-compliant or that may prevent keyboard-only navigation. And we do it all without requiring you or your developers to make costly adjustments to your website’s existing codebase.

Web Accessibility for Situational Disabilities

Have you ever had your pupils dilated for an eye exam, only to leave the doctors office and find the world painfully bright and blurry? Or maybe you’ve found yourself unable to type on the computer because you sprained your wrist?

These scenarios might just seem like temporary frustrations, but there’s actually a name for them – situational disabilities. Disabilities do not always have to be permanent or ongoing. Sometimes your environment or circumstances can create a temporary disability or impairment.

WordPress Pro Today helps to make technology more accessible for everyone, no matter what their situation is or how long they anticipate it to continue. If you’re temporarily impaired, having easy-to-use modifications will give you more freedom and flexibility to adapt digital content to your needs.