Accessibility

Web accessibility is made ever-increasingly easy with the use of separation of web layers. Text-only devices rely on accessibility techniques for displaying and relaying content for users without the regular means of graphics for understanding web content. The cause for this could be a number of things including mobile users, visually impaired users (including those with color-differentiating restrictions), restricted browers (disabling pictures, JavaScript, etc.), and those with difficulties in the navigational use of computer input devices. An increasingly dense older population has called for a simplified layout in web content which helps users, who might have not been engulfed in the Information Age since birth, achieve the highest level of understanding for where navigation, links, and interactive interfaces can be found and how each site should function. Accessible websites are important to reaching out to the entire web audience without discriminating against those with less ability than others. Using the proper syntax and layout of a website can better enable users of all walks of life to find what they are looking for and to do so without feeling a need to look elsewhere for a more accessible site.
The Web Accessibiliy Initiative (WAI) by W3C has published Web Content Accessibility Guildelines to help with accessibility in a website and give developers a guide on which to base their sites. These guidelines are a basis for what can be considered appropriate when questioning whether a site is most accessibly developed.