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We always spout about the common sense reasons for web accessibility and some interesting test cases have come to light in the past year or so of website owners being sued because their websites are not accessibility to people with disabilities - yes - wowsers and gulp!

An interesting precedent seems to be taking place in California following the case with a company called Target last year as reported on Outlaw:

California law may require websites to be accessible to disabled internet users, according to a ruling in a case against retail giant Target. Despite recent improvements to the accessibility of Target.com, the case has now been certified as a class action.

Now, I could get [rightfully] sanctimonious about the whole thing but I won’t. Instead I will appeal to your commercial side with two succinct points of reference:

• 8.5 million disabled people of the web in the UK alone
• Search engines love a website they can make sense of and as they are machines, they work in very similar ways to automatic systems that disabled people may use.

So, split your content from your style and make it make sense. Start by reading our beginners guide to website accessibility.