© Martine Dowden and Michael Dowden 2019
Martine Dowden and Michael DowdenApproachable Accessibilityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4881-2_1

1. Why Should I Care About Accessibility?

Martine Dowden1  and Michael Dowden1
(1)
Brownsburg, IN, USA
 

The purpose of web accessibility is to remove barriers and bring the information, services, and functionality of the Web to as many people as possible so they can be included in this global community. Similarly, the goal of this book is to make the subject of web accessibility approachable to technology professionals who work on web sites, and web and mobile applications.

In this first chapter you will find a definition of accessibility, along with a description of people impacted by these topics.

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