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Why Make Your Application Accessible?

Accessibility encompasses more than just providing an alternative to a mouse-driven user interface. At its core, it’s about enabling individuals and supporting their unique viewpoints and working styles.

This chapter presents several compelling reasons why you should access-enable every application you develop. If you’re considering making your application accessible, you should read this chapter. Then, you should read the following chapters to learn how Mac OS X supports accessibility and how easy it is for most applications to incorporate it.

If you’re an assistive application developer, you’re more interested in how Mac OS X supports accessibility. You may choose to skip ahead to “The Mac OS X Accessibility Protocol” to learn about the Mac OS X accessibility protocol.

Contents:

Increase Your User Base
Enter New Markets
Take Advantage of Mac OS X Assistive Features
It’s Not Difficult

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