{"id":83454,"date":"2022-10-19T14:34:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T18:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=83454"},"modified":"2022-10-19T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T18:35:09","slug":"why-businesses-struggle-with-web-accessibility-and-how-to-fix-it-boia-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/10\/19\/why-businesses-struggle-with-web-accessibility-and-how-to-fix-it-boia-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Businesses Struggle with Web Accessibility (And How to Fix It) [boia.org]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boia.org\/blog\/why-businesses-struggle-with-web-accessibility-and-how-to-fix-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Why Businesses Struggle with Web Accessibility (And How to Fix It)<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from boia.org<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">An accessible website means more traffic, better search engine optimization (SEO), reduced exposure to lawsuits, and better brand perception \u2014 but despite the benefits, most businesses fail to adopt the principles of accessible design.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In their 2022 report on the state of digital accessibility,\u00a0WebAIM\u00a0(Web Accessibility In Mind) found that 96.8% of the internet\u2019s top 1 million homepages had detectable accessibility errors. That number was actually a slight improvement from previous years: WebAIM\u2019s 2021 analysis found that 97.4% of websites had potential barriers for users with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For businesses, those numbers should be a wakeup call. But despite growing awareness of digital accessibility, many organizations struggle to make concrete changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Below, we\u2019ll explain the key factors that prevent businesses from taking the right approach \u2014 and provide some tips for overcoming those challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Businesses Struggle with Web Accessibility (And How to Fix It) &#8212; from boia.org Excerpt: An accessible website means more traffic, better search engine optimization (SEO), reduced exposure to lawsuits, and better brand perception \u2014 but despite the benefits, most businesses fail to adopt the principles of accessible design. In their 2022 report on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,387,112,476,382,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-business","category-corporate-business-world","category-marketingsocial-marketing","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-web-design-and-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83456,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83454\/revisions\/83456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}