{"id":27,"date":"2025-03-30T06:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T06:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reducebarriersintech.au\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:15:14","slug":"3-unexpected-benefits-to-making-your-site-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reducebarriersintech.au\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/3-unexpected-benefits-to-making-your-site-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Unexpected benefits to making your site accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Better User Experience<\/strong><br>When your website is designed with accessibility in mind, you can create a better user experience for all sorts of people. Clear navigation and simple sites benefit not only people with various abilities but also people with slow internet or limited time to find information they need (W3C Web Accessibility Initiative [WAI], n.d.).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Wider Audience<\/strong><br>When following accessibility strategies, your website will be able to cater to people with different needs. Sometimes these are unexpected, as a mum who gets nap trapped. When my small bub falls asleep on me, I use this time to scroll social media or watch videos with subtitles, as I often don\u2019t have headphones handy. These types of accessibility features can be a huge benefit to people in similar situations (WebAIM, 2021).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Improved Search Engine Optimization and Ranking<\/strong><br>Optimizing your site for accessibility often aligns with SEO best practices. Semantic HTML and alt text for images make it easy for web search engine bots to index your content, which can improve your ranking and visibility (Google, n.d.).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>What unexpected benefits have you found when making your website or content accessible?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">References<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Google. (n.d.). <em>Webmaster guidelines<\/em>. <a class=\"\">https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/advanced\/guidelines\/webmaster-guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (n.d.). <em>Web accessibility<\/em>. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/test\/\">https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/test\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">WebAIM. (2021). <em>WebAIM: The web accessibility in mind<\/em>. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/\">https:\/\/webaim.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What unexpected benefits have you found when making your website or content accessible? References Google. (n.d.). Webmaster guidelines. https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/advanced\/guidelines\/webmaster-guidelines W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (n.d.). Web accessibility. https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/test\/ WebAIM. (2021). 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