Digital accessibility definition

What is digital accessibility? #

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

Digital accessibility is about making the access to digital information possible regardless of the nature of a person’s disability and how they consult the information. It involves different technologies such as the Web, videos, Word and PDF documents, but also digital television or mobile phones.

It is not a question of increasing the number of information outlets, but of respecting functional, graphical, technical and editorial rules that will enable everyone to access information no matter what tools they use.

Who is concerned by digital accessibility? #

Being disabled is not limited to what other people can see.
Also, it is not necessarily a permanent situation and it can happen to any of us at some point in our life.

The following quotes are a great example of that: