Practical Web Accessibility: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Inclusion

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A. FirthPractical Web Accessibilityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0152-5_1

1. The Accessibility Problem

Ashley Firth¹  

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London, UK

 

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 ...