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But how much of these laws have protected the disabled and provided them equality? A recent study by ‘Papworth Trust’ has published facts and stats which show us that the laws have disgracefully let down our disabled community.

You want to ensure all customers can interact with your site, so it is important to build it as accessible to those with disabilities. You can accomplish this by following the four principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

The process of making a product is known to distort the objective truth from the maker, which is true for designing as well. The infatuation of your design can cloud your judgment of the outcome easily. So you must TEST, TEST and TEST your product/website/solution. 

VIP World platform assisted Travel Hands to research with a diverse pool of people with disabilities. Travel Hands could research with a partially sighted active traveller in London and test their website with a completely blind advanced techie.

There are many ways that accessibility has a positive impact on SEO. An easy example is when you optimise a website for quick loading times, not only are you directly benefiting SEO criteria, but you are also making your website accessible to users from areas with poor service. 

Being visually impaired is difficult and being outside of the societal ‘norms’ for gender is difficult, and when these two intersect, they multiply against each other. One issue makes the other even harder.