Business websites should be designed with accessibility for the disabled in mind. Disabled users are potential customers, and an inaccessible website is likely to alienate them, as well as

their friends and family members. The number of lost customers is likely to far exceed the number of disabled users who are actually unable to use the website. One of the major techniques for improving accessibility of websites for disabled users is simply following web standards. A standards-compliant site is more likely to work properly with assistive technologies such as screen readers and braille terminals, as well as browsers on devices such as cellular telephones, which are becoming increasingly popular with non-disabled users. Standards-compliant sites are also far less likely to require changes to remain compatible with future web browsers. (Holzschlag 2002) A common argument against standards-compliant, accessible sites is that they lack the visual appeal of nonstandard, inaccessible sites. As designers have grown accustomed to separating structure in the form of extensible hypertext markup language from visual presentation in the form of cascading style sheets, this argument has been shown to be fal

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