Many websites in any one country at any time is totally inaccessible to disabled persons. They are designed for people that can see, hear and read. If you look at it in another way – creating a website that Chinese people cannot read will be taboo. That is (or should be) the same for all people across the globe, even disabled people. Luckily some of the world’s largest search engines such as YouTube, Google and Yahoo are working hard towards this goal.

When the designers created a website, they did not intend on making in inaccessible to certain parties. This is often done out of ignorance and just not thinking of disabled people while designing their site. Their main focus was to reach as many people as possible. It actually came as a surprise to them that they couldn’t reach as many people as they hoped for. As soon as they realized that it is not reaching disabled people, they began to furiously work on that matter.

Developers were under the impression the new tools couldn’t be used as they were not accessible and did not know they could make them accessible. They did not see it as an opportunity to make their services better but rather just as a stumbling block.

Although not only accessibility affects performance, a well designed website that everybody can visit and navigate is a very good website to have. Fully accessible websites also function better with dial up connections and hand held devices such as iPhones and Blackberries. They are also much more supported with large corporations such as Google.

Another problem is that the website or company can be taken on in court by federations such as the Federation for the Blind if they are not accessible to everyone. The Federation won and the site lost the court case, being sued for millions. It is not important that the Federation won, the important thing is that the website company actually lost much more than the money they were sued for, they lost thousands of potential clients as well.

The right thing to do is to, when designing a website, to design it with total accessibility in mind. Before you design it, you need to consider people with sight problems, color blindness and complete blindness. You could make use of braille or screen readers. For bad eyesight you can make the letters large and in a color that will stand out. Enlarged text can also help people with MS, Parkinsons or cerebral paulsy, as all these diseases effect your muscles – they would not be able to use a mouse correctly. You can also make use of speech recognition software on your site, to make it easy for people with no eyesight at all. A website called "BBC Ouch!" is a fine example of a professional, successful website. It was designed with all users in mind, disabled bodies as well.

Your website would have to be designed on HTML to make it easy for screen readers to work on it. Screen readers cannot function on JavaScript or Flash – that is where the old faithful HTML comes in.