The Accessibility Problem

Accessibility can be a difficult subject to approach, and it’s often tough to know where to start. This is why I have decided to write this book. My aim is to help you understand accessibility and build it into your websites so that together, we can make the Internet the inclusive, empowering place it has the potential to be, for the estimated 1.3 billion people – or 16% of the global population – who experience a significant disability today.1 Before we get there though, let’s begin with a more holistic examination of what web accessibility is and where it’s at as a topic today. We’ll explore how it’s become a problem, the merits of a “disability-driven” approach, and why now is the perfect time to understand it.