Back in 1994, the founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, devised guidelines for web designers that would make their web pages more accessible and usable for people with disabilities.



More than a decade later, Mr. Berners-Lee, the director of the official governing body of the web - the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - is still advocating for better accessibility.

In the United Kingdom, a set of new guidelines, PAS 78, have been approved in hopes to improve web pages for the UK's estimated 10 million disabled people.

The new guidelines are a result of a year-long collaboration between the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and the British Standards Institution.

Web designers in the U.S. should factor into their work a little extra time to make their web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

As a bonus, your web content will also be more accessible to everyone and can show higher up in search results on the Internet.