...and even though it isn't the law, trust me: you'll be happier when it is.
Oh no, not again, I hear you cry. She’s always on this accessibility or usability kick! Why can’t she get a life?
I do have a life. I also have vision that will start to fail in my 60s. And guess what…yours probably will, too. Just because a person can still see (and even still legally drive) doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t like to be able to read web pages without having to wear cokebottle magnifiers.
There are others like me out there. (woo hoo!) Check out their pages and read up on techniques to make your site more accessible. If we start now writing cleaner, standards-adherent code, constructing more accessible web sites, and working at making all web sites easier to use (even the artsy-fartsy sites need good navigation), then when we get old and doddering — or doddering and then old, whichever happens to come first for you — we’ll be able to access the Internet without calling one of our grandkids to read the pages for us.
It’s enlightened self interest.
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