Accessibility
Web sites should be accessible to as many people as possible.
Whatever your reason for having a web site, it is more likely to be successful the more people can use it. Different surfers have different browsers, and use different screen resolutions; some are unable to read text without resizing it, and some can’t use a mouse; some can read the text fine but are colour-blind; others can’t read text at all, and have web pages read to them by a screen reader. Web sites should be accessible to all of these groups.
I am a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS). GAWDS membership is reserved for those whose work has been scutinised by an accessibility expert and found to meet the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the widely recognised standard for accessibility and that which is generally accepted to meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 in the UK. Members commit to promoting and practising accessible web design and development.