May 21, 2010 View Comments
Accessibility in the Work Place
It is our legal obligation to make our websites accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities. Organizations who fail to comply with accessibility standards have been sued for such offenses. In the case of Maguire v. Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, 2000 the website was found inaccessible. The committee was ordered to comply with such standards while failure to do so would provide Maguire with cause for further litigation; including monetary compensation.1
But avoiding lawsuits and fulfilling these moral duties to the disabled in not the only reason to include affordances like these in our designs. There are over 60 million disabled Americans, over 500 million worldwide. According to of 2010 census that’s nearly 25% of Americans2. With such a huge percent of the population, Fortune Magazine has cited this market to be one of the largest, and most forgotten about demographic to target. Collectively, the annual gross income of disabled Americans is over $1 trillion.
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