# How accessible is accessible?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/10/12/how-accessible-accessible/
- Published: 1999-10-12T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

This month the Disability Discrimination Act comes into force. From now on goods
and services have to be offered on equal terms to people with disabilities. This
can range from restaurant staff reading out a menu to a blind person to publishing
Web sites that are accessible to people with disabilities.
How accessible are disability
charities’ Web sites? A recent US survey reveals some concerns. The survey looked
into the accessibility of the Web sites of over 200 US non-profit organisations 
working with people with disabilities. Report author Michael Gilbert of the Nonprofit
Site Analyzer found “nearly 65% of the sites had one or more accessibility errors”
and that “nearly 80% had some sort of browser compatibility error that might lead
to an access problem.”

The Accessibility of Disability Sites is one of the resources linked to on UK Fundraising’s
July 1999 report Fighting Web-based discrimination.

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