Web Overhauls: Tune-Up Your Web Site

• Why It's Important
• The Real World
• Questions?

Why It's Important

There are many reasons to ensure your web site is usable, complies with standards, and is accessible. Some of them include:

• Increase the speed of your web site and reduce bandwidth (file transfer) which may save you money in hosting costs.
• Quickly and easily maintain your web pages.
• Increase search engine placement with 'natural' search engine optimization (SEO).
• Expand your customer base by making your web site accessible to all.
• Gain customer trust and satisfaction by customers quickly and easily achieving goals on your web site.
• Avoid potential lawsuits by making your site fully accessible.

Learn more about usability, standards, and accessibility, and how these practices can make your web site be more effective for your business.

The Real World

The rules of usability, standards, and accessibility are very important in the real world, and with the law. Here are some legal rulings (U.S.):

• Target to pay $6 million to settle site accessibility suit
• Legislation makes Texas Web Designers do due diligence
• Web Site Accessibility Lawsuit may effect millions of Oracle systems
• Judge Rules That Inaccessible Website Violates ADA
• Suit Over Airlines' Web Sites Tests Bounds of ADA
• In Australia a visually impaired web user took the organisers of the Sydney Olympics to court for their inaccessible website and won $20,000 in damages.

Questions?

Please feel free to contact us with any type of comment or question, no matter how big or small. We are happy to speak with you on how to improve your web site.

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