Why and how to make your WooCommerce store accessible
Web accessibility is the practice of designing and developing websites in a way that ensures that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the content effectively, regardless of their abilities or impairments.
In the e-commerce world, there are four major reasons to care about accessibility:
- Inclusivity
- Legal liability
- Business benefits
- Preparing for demographic trends
Inclusivity
One criticism of accessibility that you’ll see online is this: why spend so much effort to make a website accessible to blind users? Couldn’t you spend that same effort to grow your business even more?
Everyone will have a disability at some point
If you look narrowly at the term disabled, I can understand the roots of this argument. But if you look a little more long-term, everyone will be disabled at some point or in some contexts:
- Everyone ages: Eyes age...
