10 Reasons People Care About Accessibility

I don’t know why you are read­ing this blog, but I there are a num­ber of rea­sons that peo­ple become inter­ested in acces­si­bil­ity issues. Do any of the below cat­e­gories sound famil­iar to you or maybe some­one you have worked with? Pre­sented with no author­ity and in no par­tic­u­lar order:

Why do you care about accessibility?

1. Fol­low­ing the Crowd. My favorite A-list blog­ger keeps talk­ing about acces­si­bil­ity and I don’t want to be left behind.
2. Curios­ity Killed the Cat. Enough about alt tags already, what’s the big deal with accessibility?
3. Work­ing for a Liv­ing. My boss cares and there­fore so do I.
4. The Plain­tiff will now Approach the Bench. The lawyer guy keeps telling me that I need to care about accessibility.
5. Me, Myself and I. I have a dis­abil­ity– I cre­ate acces­si­ble sites so that I can use them.
6. We are Fam­ily. I have a fam­ily member/friend with a disability.
7. We are the World. You know, “It’s true we’ll make a bet­ter day. Just you and me”.
8. Pow­er­ful Mar­ket Forces. Why on earth would I make my site harder for cus­tomers to use?
9. Pride cometh Before the Fall Of course my site is acces­si­ble, it also val­i­dates as XHTML Strict, I have never used a table in my life and I read W3C meet­ing min­utes for fun.
10. I don’t. Oh, okay– fine. (there– that makes 10).

Any oth­ers you would add to the list?

As long as a web devel­oper is moti­vated to cre­ate an acces­si­ble site, does it mat­ter what their moti­va­tion is?