At the start of the new millenium, the World Health Organization announced that 500 million people around the world -- or one in five -- were living with physical disabilities, and 54-million of these were living in the United States. The US government has long mandated that brick and mortar businesses be accessible to all. As more and more business is conducted on the Internet, however, there is increasing pressure for Internet companies and their products to be accessible as well.
"I believe the statistics speak for themselves on why accessibility is so important," e