Information Management | Opinion: Best practices for making software more accessible
Nearly 49 million U.S. consumers with disabilities face unique challenges accessing products, services and information, and if software providers don’t consider these needs in their development process, they are all but sending them to a competitor who does.
No matter the end product, if a business doesn’t address accessibility during its software development and testing, it’s losing out on an opportunity to engage with more customers. Beyond that, while accessibility standards are mandatory only for certain industries—aviation and government among them—all businesses have the responsibility to make their products accessible to everyone.
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