Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020

Today, May 21, 2020, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day!

We’ve covered on the blog before about how to make your social media accessible but today, in honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we wanted to share a few reasons why accessibility is so important and how WSB is committed to accessibility for all. Accessibility is more important than ever, with even major news forgetting to include it.

Creating accessible content benefits so many people throughout the world including those with vision loss, hearing loss, motor impairments, and cognitive impairments. Everyone deserves a chance to experience the web and accessibility helps to achieve that. Accessibility removes barriers and gives those with disabilities a first-rate experience on the web. And it is more important than ever to create accessible content during a time where so many things are moving to online from remote jobs to shopping for groceries online.

WSB is committed to providing accessible content for people with all kinds of disabilities. And there are a few simple things you can do to help those with disabilities access information easier on the web, which we mention in our blog post about creating accessible social media content. If you already have a website, you can use the WAVE accessibility checker, which can help you correct minor issues with your accessibility (and can help you know what to fix for next time!).

We wanted to take today, Global Accessibility Awareness day, to remind everyone the importance of web accessibility!