Commercial:

1. Increase your market share:

• 6.7 million people of working age in the UK are disabled (more than 150,000 registered blind).

• The UK disabled community has a spending power of £33 Billion.

1. Improve relations with your customers and business contacts.

2. Search engines find and index accessible sites more efficiently.

3. Other devices such as PDAs, mobile phones and other online devices work better with accessible pages.

4. Visually-impared people are increasingly more likely to use the Internet as a source of information than other sources such as print.

Technical:

1. Search engines find and index accessible sites more efficiently.

2. Other devices such as PDAs, mobile phones and other online devices work better with accessible pages.

3. W3C (web consortium) compliancy to open standards.

4. An accessible site works with ALL (graphical and non-graphical) browsers.

Legal:

1. Disability Discrimination Act : UK DDA Part iii update (October 2004)

2. Equal opportunities employment

3. USA : Section 508

4. European legistlation

Ethical:

1. Why exclude any percentage of users from access to available information and knowledge base?

2. 6.7 million people of working age in the UK are disabled (more than 150,000 registered blind).