Why and how to make your WooCommerce store accessible

Web accessibility is the practice of designing and developing websites in a way that ensures that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the content effectively, regardless of their abilities or impairments.

In the e-commerce world, there are four major reasons to care about accessibility:

• Inclusivity
• Legal liability
• Business benefits
• Preparing for demographic trends

Inclusivity

One criticism of accessibility that you’ll see online is this: why spend so much effort to make a website accessible to blind users? Couldn’t you spend that same effort to grow your business even more?

Everyone will have a disability at some point

If you look narrowly at the term disabled, I can understand the roots of this argument. But if you look a little more long-term, everyone will be disabled at some point or in some contexts:

• Everyone ages: Eyes age...