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For a website to be accessible, its content must be available to everyone, including people with disabilities. Accessible websites ensure:

• Smooth transformation: information and services should be accessible despite physical, sensory or cognitive user disabilities, work constraints or technological barriers
• Understandable and navigable content: content should be presented in a clear and simple manner, and should provide understandable mechanisms to navigate within and between pages.

An accessible website:

• can be perceived
• can be navigated
• can be utilized (with a keyboard or devices other than a mouse)
• can be easily understood (even in attention-poor situations)

Accessibility and usability are closely related, as they both improve satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency. But while accessibility is aimed at making the website open to a wider user population, usability is aimed at making the target population of the website happier, with a more efficient and effective website.